Debate on the topic of liberal bias in higher education is now decades old, but the issue remains as controversial as ever, positioned, as it is, within broader culture wars that show no sign of waning. Passions continue to be heated on all sides of the argument. Occasionally, though, there is some levity. Scott Jaschik, for example, tells the old joke that “Professors are all Democrats, except those who are communists.”1 But such humor is always short-lived; Jaschik’s point in “Bias Seen in Bias Studies” is to present the results of a review of eight previous studies that purport to document liberal bias. All eight are reported to be fraught with significant methodological problems. Interestingly, however, controversy surrounding methodological issues was considerably quelled with the publication of Neil Gross and Solon Simmons’s The Social and Political Views of American
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