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James Bacon
The Jefferson Council
Excerpt: “Conservative students at the University of Virginia,” a fourth-year student once confided to me, “know who all the conservative professors are. … All seven of them.”
That was only a slight exaggeration. Through my work with the Jefferson Council I have identified a dozen faculty members openly identifying as conservative and/or libertarian out of roughly 1,700 faculty members. I have met three or four more not yet willing to come out of hiding.
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