This is an interesting article about a conservative historian who supposedly has been denied jobs at universities across the country, supposedly because of his politics.
Mark Moyar, Historian of Vietnam, Finds Academe Hostile to a Hawk - April 30, 2007 - The New York Sun
He went to Harvard, the article gushes in several places. he has published a book.
But let's be clear about something. The job market is brutal and a great many qualified people do not get jobs or even interviews. It is the nature of the beast. He has applied for over 150 jobs without getting one. Well, join the club. Which American historian hasn't applied for hundreds of jobs over the years and not even gotten interviews? That is, which historian with publications, teaching experience, and degree from a top ranked institution?
I can affirm this from first hand experience. In fact, I applied for all of the exact same jobs this guy applied for and I didn't get these jobs. And I have impeccable leftie credentials on paper. I just chalked it up the job market sucking thoroughly.
So, while I believe that there is a liberal bias in most of these schools, it hardly seems credible that there is a vast conspiracy keeping this guy out. Unless the conspiracy is keeping everybody out.
The right is the loudest to complain about not getting exactly what they want. Take your lumps you sissies! You are the ones who trumpet the market and "creative destruction." Reap the benefits. The market has declared that historians are not valuable, and the market has chosen people in specific fields that don't happen to coexist with your own. We just hired a full time PhD for a year long position for $25,000, no benefits and no hope for renewal.
It is cheaper to hire newbies fresh out of grad school with no experience than it is to hire some right winger with an agenda and a media campaign to demand that he deserves a job because he wants one.
His evidence is that Iowa has a bunch of Dems on the faculty? What does that prove exactly?
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