Left-Wing Bias in Academia

We hear a great deal about the supposed liberal bias in American colleges and universities, yet whoever wrote the thoughts at the left here poses an interesting idea: suppose reality is closer aligned to what we think of today as left-wing values.

We need to keep in mind that a great deal of what we think of as political opinions really aren’t opinions at all.  They are hard, cold facts that either are understood or they are not.

Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, the death penalty does not deter violent crime, torture is an inferior method of extracting the truth, there is a positive correlation between gun ownership and gun deaths, vaccinations are generally safe and effective, there are few if any white supremacists who are well-read and well-traveled, human beings tend to be happy according to the degree to which their communities take care of one another, the evidence supporting human-caused global warming is overwhelming, policies that ignore scientific evidence generally fail, and there is no evidence of substantial voter fraud in the U.S. 2020 presidential election.

Yes, we’ve built a political spectrum out of these concepts, but in reality, these are just facts.