I am a conservative PhD student surprised at the open political biases of virtually all my professors. They openly express their support for the liberal order while condemning and mocking the conservative order in class.
How should a conservatives student navigate this landmine?
Join the Intercollegiate Studies Institute if you want ideological support. Also attend Philadelphia Society conferences, and then gun for a Madison Fellowship at Princeton. There's a vast right wing conspiracy that is waiting to embrace you.
Better advice, do good work and no one will care what you believe privately, and you'll have a much broader appeal.
I am a conservative PhD student surprised at the open political biases of virtually all my professors. They openly express their support for the liberal order while condemning and mocking the conservative order in class.
How should a conservatives student navigate this landmine?
You don't navigate it. Political Science is a joke profession for liberal pseudointellectuals. And under Biden, right wing dissidents will be hounded as domestic terrorists. You chose poorly.
I am a conservative PhD student surprised at the open political biases of virtually all my professors. They openly express their support for the liberal order while condemning and mocking the conservative order in class.
How should a conservatives student navigate this landmine?You don't navigate it. Political Science is a joke profession for liberal pseudointellectuals. And under Biden, right wing dissidents will be hounded as domestic terrorists. You chose poorly.
Sad but true. However, there is Claremont and Hillsdale.
OP:
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Snark and the invocation of social status is all brainwashed liberals have.
Do good work, don't let your politics influence your work, don't talk about politics. It's neither difficult nor complicated, lots of us do it. In fact, I appreciate the discipline it provides; the temptation to allow political biases to shine through if those biases were tolerated or rewarded would be much greater. I honestly think I do better work thanks to academia being so liberal.
Seek out ISI (if you're more tradCath) or IHS (if you're more libertarian) or Claremont people (if you're more Trumpy) for networking and support. Most profs and other grad students probably won't care too much as long as you're not injecting your politics into every conversation. Some might even welcome a different perspective in seminars and colloquia so long as it's done more Buckley-style and not Shapiro-style. You should tactfully inquire at some point though to make sure your advisor is cool. Don't shoot your mouth off online and make sure to ignore the endless stream of emails that you'll get from your school/department about the latest left-wing fads; it's not worth fighting on your own, especially as a grad student.
Realize that you will get strong pushback if you question certain assumptions in the discipline in your research, so consider that when you're choosing and framing your research topics. Avoid the more politicized topics (e.g. REP) at all costs if you want a shot at a job anywhere besides Quillette. You might be able to translate a different perspective into "surprising" and/or "counter-intuitive" findings if you play your cards right, but do be prepared to face a higher standard of evidence than following the party line. Figure out quickly how to "do good work" and focus more on that than anything else, including outside politics, while in grad school.
OP:
Some really nice Phentanyl tablets sold at night in the trailer park where you live will do the trickOP:
Some really nice Phentanyl tablets sold at night in the trailer park where you live will do the trick
"Educated individual" misspells fentanyl. SCIENCE!!!Snark and the invocation of social status is all brainwashed liberals have.
It's the generic trailer park version, which doesn't infringe on the original copyrights
work on methods, keep mouth shut, the benefits from IHS/Claremont/ISI only slightly outweigh the costs are this stage, as someone who has done two of the three.
I am a conservative PhD student surprised at the open political biases of virtually all my professors. They openly express their support for the liberal order while condemning and mocking the conservative order in class.
How should a conservatives student navigate this landmine?
Thank you. You made many good points. Thanks!
I disagree with this statement:
"Most profs and other grad students probably won't care too much as long as you're not injecting your politics into every conversation. Some might even welcome a different perspective in seminars and colloquia so long as it's done more Buckley-style and not Shapiro-style."
Seek out ISI (if you're more tradCath) or IHS (if you're more libertarian) or Claremont people (if you're more Trumpy) for networking and support. Most profs and other grad students probably won't care too much as long as you're not injecting your politics into every conversation. Some might even welcome a different perspective in seminars and colloquia so long as it's done more Buckley-style and not Shapiro-style. You should tactfully inquire at some point though to make sure your advisor is cool. Don't shoot your mouth off online and make sure to ignore the endless stream of emails that you'll get from your school/department about the latest left-wing fads; it's not worth fighting on your own, especially as a grad student.
Realize that you will get strong pushback if you question certain assumptions in the discipline in your research, so consider that when you're choosing and framing your research topics. Avoid the more politicized topics (e.g. REP) at all costs if you want a shot at a job anywhere besides Quillette. You might be able to translate a different perspective into "surprising" and/or "counter-intuitive" findings if you play your cards right, but do be prepared to face a higher standard of evidence than following the party line. Figure out quickly how to "do good work" and focus more on that than anything else, including outside politics, while in grad school.
I am a conservative PhD student surprised at the open political biases of virtually all my professors. They openly express their support for the liberal order while condemning and mocking the conservative order in class.
How should a conservatives student navigate this landmine?
Navigate it by offing yourself.
I’m conservative professor. Do I think there is a double standard on what left-leaning grad students/professors can say and what I can say? Yeah, but it is what it is. You can’t change it. I avoid talking about politics unless it is an area of consensus because few want to hear alternative perspectives. I show respect for others and focus on my research and let that speak for me.