The incentives for groupthink. 

Academic departments are trending toward conformity. “According to arguably the best-designed survey of American faculty beliefs since the early 1970s, which was carried out in the mid-00s, only 3.6% of humanities faculty members and only 4.9% in the social sciences self-identified as conservatives.” Neema Parvini digs into the mechanics of why that’s the case. | learn more