Since joining academia, have you become more or less liberal than you were before?

[Sleeping in EQ]

I'm feeling centrist these days. There's too much PC nonsense coming from both sides.

[pellegrino]

I'm feeling centrist these days. There's too much PC nonsense coming from both sides.

I've been moving that way for the past three years. Rather unhappy with my party.

[Indy Coug]

I've been moving that way for the past three years. Rather unhappy with my party.

Interesting. Is the ideological pendulum beginning to swing the other direction in academia?

[pellegrino]

Interesting. Is the ideological pendulum beginning to swing the other direction in academia?

judging from recent conversations with my colleagues, I don't think that's the case. It's sad to see so many sharp minds not look critically at everything that is said by both sides.

[Indy Coug]

judging from recent conversations with my colleagues, I don't think that's the case. It's sad to see so many sharp minds not look critically at everything that is said by both sides.

I would think that critical thinking skills would end up landing most people somewhere near the middle.