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The Fear of Right-Wing Politics in Universities

Academics at Oxford, I would imagine every other British institution or most of them, certainly all of the credentialed ones, will have academics leading to the left. This is obviously not true in the economics department where advanced degrees and economics make you more conservative as it happens. And there's also just another generational thing that's happening, which is that younger generations of people in the UK, in the US, and in some other places are tacking more to the left when they enter university.

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