Why I’m Leaving the Political Science Association. Looking forward to a lively annual conference of the American Political Science Association, due to start this week in San Francisco, I proposed a panel on “Viewpoint Diversity in Political Science.” After all, I thought, wasn’t the 2. American body politic? My submission featured four of the most prominent political scientists in the country who have written on the issue of political diversity in the field. They included Joshua Dunn, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, whose co- authored 2.

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University has been a focus of the national discussion among academics interested in the issue; and April Kelly- Woessner, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Legal Studies at Elizabethtown College, whose co- authored 2. The Still Divided Academy: How Competing Visions of Power Politics and Diversity Complicate the Mission of Higher Education is the gold standard on how to promote respectful political dialogue on campus. Quaint Notions of White Identity? Now, granted, every major conference receives far more submissions than it can accept. Still, I was surprised when the panel was rejected. I assumed that it had been bested by superior panels submitted to the jointly- organized teaching and education sections of the conference. But when the official program came out, I could see that it was not.

At a press conference on Sunday, angry citizens ran off Jason Kessler, the organizer of a disastrous rally for white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other members of the. Directed by Frank Tashlin. With Jerry Lewis, Jill St. John, Ray Walston, John McGiver. Norman Phiffier works as a store clerk in a large department store. Clumsy and. It’s mistake to conclude that “where you go to college is of almost no importance.” Even if they don’t offer the royal road to intellectual or professional.

Instead, it was crowded out by APSA’s serious lack of political diversity. A total of 1. 1 full panels or roundtables were accepted in the teaching and education sections. Of these, 7 are on mainstream teaching topics.

Another 4 were set aside for, shall we say, more politicized topics. One, entitled “Let’s Talk about Sex (and Gender and Sexuality)”, is on how to restructure the classroom around ideas of being “genderfluid, transgender, or gender nonconforming.” Another, on “Tolerance, Diversity, and Assessment” will focus on how to use administrative coercion to enforce various group identity agendas.

The Ballot or the Bullet by Malcolm X April 3, 1964 Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe.

The third, called “Taking Advantage of Diversity,” will help scholars to understand why their quaint notions of cutting edge knowledge are merely expressions of white identity. Another, “Teaching Trump”, is composed of left- wing feminist scholars. Final score for political science education at this year’s APSA conference: left- wing approaches to diversity and difference: 4; conservative or classical liberal approaches: 0. The Holy Trinity of Leftist Grievance. Watch Mega Shark Vs. Mecha Shark Dailymotion there. For good measure, I looked at the entire conference program to see whether the preponderance of panels on left- wing approaches to diversity in the teaching and education sections was to balance a lack of them elsewhere. I searched for panels on the holy trinity of identity politics: sexism/feminism, racism/white privilege, and sexual orientation/homo/transphobia.

My best guess is that conference attendees will have a choice of 1. Just for laughs, I searched for panels on political, ideological, or viewpoint diversity.

None. There are, of course, special sections controlled by conservative or classical liberal groups at the APSA conference. But as for the sections that are open to all submissions, they essentially fall into two groups: strictly empirical work or normatively left- wing ideas. Am I the only one scratching my head? I have worked with political scientists of an overwhelmingly left- wing bent for all of my career, so I know that there is nothing nefarious in this. Indeed, this is a key finding of  Dunn’s Passing on the Right. Sometimes, conservative commentators on the academy write as if there is a vast conspiracy operating on campus.

There is not. Most of my left- wing colleagues in political science are reasonable and rational people who are aware of the importance of bringing a variety of political viewpoints into the classroom. When I asked the section organizer why our panel was rejected, she genuinely seemed not to remember – not indicative of an intentional censoring of non- left- wing issues – and added: “I agree it’s an important topic.”So why the lack of balance? Despite the lip- service to the importance of viewpoint diversity, asking an APSA organizer committed to the advance of left- wing viewpoints to take one for the right is like asking a glutton to forego ice cream. There are no practical means to translate theory into practice. The eyes roll tiredly over proposals concerning viewpoint diversity but perk up excitedly at the sight of one, to cite another of the offerings at this year’s conference, “Disavowing Violence: Imperial Entitlements, From Burke to Trump (Fuck That Guy).”Looniest End of the Academy. Indeed, for the looniest end of the left- wing academy, even the theory is hostile to viewpoint diversity. They view the academy as a special zone of (left- wing) Truth that must be protected against (right- wing) Falsehoods of the real world.

Genuine pluralism, from this vantage, is a cover for privilege and oppression. Why import such falsehoods into the charmed realm of truth they have carved out with taxpayer’s money? Or more to the point, why go through the pain, inconvenience, and potential disapprobation of importing falsehoods? I do not think the teaching and education section leaders of this year APSA were of that sort. But the system is heavily stacked against even a brief effort in the direction of idea pluralism. Why stick your neck out to accept a panel on political diversity at a political science conference when, to cite another of this year’s offerings, one can win kudos for accepting a panel entitled: “Pussies Grab Back: Feminism in the Wake of Trump”?

Much has been written about the general problem of a lack of political diversity in political science and its drift to the far left. The ratio of Democratic/left- of- center to Republican/right- of- center professors in political science is variously estimated at around 1. In my home state of Oregon, I believe the ratio is infinitely large because I do not know of a single Republican or conservative in our profession here (I am a swing voter and independent).

APSA is not only indicative of this worsening problem but, and here is the issue, a key cause of it and thus, potentially, a fulcrum point for change. It was not always this way. APSA was founded in 1.

It’s constitution still declares that “the Association as such is nonpartisan. It will not support political parties or candidates. It will not commit its members on questions of public policy nor take positions not immediately concerned with its direct purpose” of academic inquiry. For years, it upheld those ideals. Remarkably, APSA and political science more generally survived the onslaught of illiberal radicalism, political correctness, and censorship of the 1.

John Gunnell of SUNY- Albany wrote in the association’s main journal in 2. APSA presidents well after that era included prominent conservatives like Samuel Huntington of Harvard (1. James Q. Wilson of UCLA (1. The real problems arose when the graduate students of the 1. APSA executives. While political science and APSA were able to withstand an assault on academic freedom and viewpoint diversity from illiberal students, they had no means to defend themselves when those illiberal students became the governors.

From the 2. 00. 0s, a string of such far- left scholars came into office as APSA presidents: they included old- left scholars of class and socialism like Theda Skocpol of Harvard (served in 2. Margaret Levi of Washington (served in 2. Ira Katznelson of Columbia (served in 2. Dianne Pinderhughes of Notre Dame (2. Rodney Hero of Berkeley (2. Jennifer Hochschild of Harvard (2. There is of course nothing wrong with a variety of positions being represented in the APSA presidency.

However, there was never any countervailing tendency.