Facebook sparked outrage among free speech advocates when it fact-checked a senior economist with the American Institute of Economic Research for spreading so-called misinformation.
Facebook sparked outrage among free speech advocates when it fact-checked a senior economist with the American Institute of Economic Research for spreading so-called misinformation.
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from around 45% identifying as liberal in 1969 to nearly 06% in 2013. now they don t call themselves liberals. they call themselves progressives. and it could get worse. here to discuss is visiting assistant professor of economics at barry college philip magness. thank you very much for joining us this morning. first off, why this shift? we all think of higher education as liberal. why are you saying it s getting more liberal? right. thanks again for having me. a couple things. if you look at the surveys historically, we have about 50 years worth of data where they have been asking professors a simple question where do you self-identify? is it conservative, moderate? or liberal? and for most of the late 20th century it was a pretty stable ratio, college faculty always tended to lean on the left but they recovered around 40 to 45% for a good 30 years. around 1998, 1999 there was a break that happened. that break saw a rapid acceleration of faculty members that started to