Booktv on cspan2 we are on location at Claremont College in california where were discussing talking with professors also authors. Passing on the right conservative professors from the Progressive University is the coauthor. Professor, a page number one you manage your coauthor right that the conservatives are so scarce. They are. Less than 5 of social scientist self identify as conservatives. About 18 percent are marxist so they are badly outnumbered they are that scarce. To use self identify as a conservative . I do. I a rare and strange creature. So the thought is conservative professors on liberal arts campuses baja are intimidated . Right. The recent conservatives are an Enemy Territory but that is not what we found we interviewed all professors in they tell us that university is much more tolerant and more than write wing critics. What specifically did you hear . Tavis is partly because they are not as politicized as we think they are and conservatives gravitate hough so they often become e economist with other disciplines that are not deeply politicized as conservatives are more inclined to be historians and therefore they find the academy to be tolerant but they do say they could have wrath time of it and if that is true we profile their experience as well. But it is also the case that they make friendship across the political divide and theyre much better at carving out a niche then we think they are. Where is it a little more troubling . They steady race or the american family, of feminism , areas that our important to the left in that are dominated by the left for some disciplines they are more politicized. Sociology about onequarter of the sociologists so you have to have some sex kitten of how you present yourself so those that we interviewed they have concealed their politics out to the ivory tower shot. As it benefited the conservative movement to think of College Campuses as liberal and tolerant . No. I certainly understand the reaction to the liberal university their responses are unprovoked and it is troubling when conservative authors are not invited because of their political views so well one hand tied understand but i think they have often overreacted. And that is unfortunate because that may steer some of Young Conservatives away some may decide they dont want to become professors because they see that as a much more intolerable place. Have you personally had any issues . A few. Not enough not to make me want to be a professor. On bill whole i have been very happy. We dont claim that the university doesnt present challenges we just think they are manageable if we need more education with the conservatives in the social sciences. We hope to encourage more of them to become professors. Have you been critiqued from the right . We have. But notably by conservatives outside the university is inside the university has a very different view. What are some of the critiques . We understate the intolerance that this was from another minority like a racial minority we wouldnt be understating the intolerance and i think that the right could not copy that grievance politics of the left to overstate that intolerance that does exist. Professor, had universities always been large the liberal . Yes. For a very large a very long time we dont have survey data but a lot of the evidence suggests they Read University faculty throughout the 20th century and they do seem to have become more liberal with the new left with too feminist it did drift to the left but a more broadly liberal institution. The political makeup it is much more conservative than a natural scientist sciences or humanities and within the social science of economics is more conservative discipline. Economics is the one discipline that looks like america. What do you teach at claremont . American politics. I teach to contradict an introductory course called the american cultural wars central conflict, a social movements, and sometimes religion and politics. The student body comes. Is it pretty split . Is the predefined attitude . Yes. We do get some conservatives. We do get more conservatives than other elite liberal arts colleges. That makes us of a little bit unusual. They have written this book passing on the right. Is it bad that colleges are overall liberal . I think more conservative to be a good thing. I dont think that is true but more conservatives would be a good thing especially field setter dominated by the left. Because more conservatives would improve social science is there an interest intimidation factor . What do you mean by intimidation factor . There is a couple of movements like all why this matter or black lives matter. Triggers. I think so. But it does affect the left more than the right liberal professors teach what might get them in hot water theyre more likely to teach race or gender courses largely because the conservatives avoid them there dominated by the of laughed. They tend to teach courses that our less likely to incite the energies is shielded from those movements. Have you ever steered away from a potential course . I have not but some conservative professors to steer clear. Can you ever got yourself in trouble . No. Thanks for your time. Booktv on cspan2. What is on your reading list . 1789 James Madison had a problem under the articles of Confederation Madison had worked tirelessly behindthescenes to devise a convention to divide the