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Shmuel Leib Melamud
21-05-2026 11:45

1. Even the Center is Vanishing The first graph shows the increasing dominance of the left in academia from the late 1960s to the early 2020s. As you can see, liberals and leftists have always outnumbered the rest, but the skew has grown increasingly strong over time. And not only have conservatives become vanishingly rare, so have centrists. That's how complete the left's dominance is: Even moderates are now a fringe group in academia. 70.0% 60.0 51.0% 50.0 47.5% 45.2% 46.2% 46.2% 45.4% 41.0% 40.0 33.8% 30.7% 32.3% 36.0% 35.3% 33.7% 30.0 27.5% 27.1% 28.4% 26.6% 20.0 20.1% 17.8% 16.1% 17.1% 16.6% 10.0 0.0 - 1969 1975 1984 '89-90 '92-93 '95-96 '98-99 01-02 Figure 1. Faculty Ideology in the United States, 1969-2022 55.2% 27.4% 17.4% 04-05 Far Left / Liberal 74.2% 62.7% 59.8% 59.8% 55.8% 28.4% 27.4% 28.1% 25.4% 15.9% 11.9% 12.8% 12.1% Middle-of- the-Road 14.9% Conservative / Far Right 10.8% 07-08 10-11 13-14 16-17 2021-22 Sources: Compilation of Carnegie Foundation Data, 1969-1984 (e.g., Hamilton & Hargens, 1993), HERI data, 1989-2017 (e.g., Stolzenberg et al., 2019), and survey data from Honeycutt, 2021-22 (Honeycutt, 2024). Chart: Nathan Honeycutt • Created with Datawrapper

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