YALE COMPLETES INTELLECTUAL PURGE: Zero Republicans Across 27 Departments As Viewpoint Apartheid Replaces Academic Freedom

Over the past fifty years, the left has doggedly pursued Rudi Dutschke’s slogan — “the long march through the institutions” — a strategy inspired by Mao’s “Long March,” but adapted for Western liberal societies, replacing armed struggle with the slow, methodical capture of universities, media, law, culture, and elite institutions from within. What once sounded theoretical now reads like an after-action report. At Yale University, a study cited by The Buckley Institute.

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These institutions, some in the revered Ivy League of education and research, are not just exclusive clubs. They are the vanguards of ideological discourse. They proudly host activist programs like Yale’s Law and Political Economy Project, which challenges capitalism’s influence on the law, and they produce publications such as “The Religious Liberty Threat to American-Style Social Insurance” to challenge societal norms….(more)

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Jonathan Turley:Yale has finally achieved liberal nirvana. According to a recent report from the Buckley Institute, there is now not a single Republican found across 27 of 43 departments at Yale University. In a nation roughly evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats (with a slight advantage to the GOP), only 3 percent are Republicans across all Yale departments. In comparison, roughly 83% of faculty are registered Democrats or primarily support Democratic candidates. The Buckley Institute’s report looked at Yale’s undergraduate departments, as well as its School of Management and Law School…. Nothing is likely to change so long as donors continue to blindly fund these programs and ignore the obvious intolerance for opposing views. For now, most Yale departments have succeeded in creating a safe space for the ideologically intolerant (Jonathon Turley). The report Turley is interacting with: (Buckley).

Summary of the study (as reported by the Buckley Institute): The report argues Yale’s faculty has an extreme partisan imbalance. Across Yale’s 43 undergraduate departments plus Yale Law School and Yale School of Management, Buckley reports faculty are 82.3% Democrat, 15.4% unaffiliated/third party, and 2.3% Republican—a 36:1 Democrat-to-Republican ratio overall. Buckley Institute The report’s most-cited data point is that 27 of the 43 undergraduate degree-granting departments (63%) have zero Republicans on faculty, and it highlights three departments—East Asian Languages & Literature, French, and Italian—as having neither independents nor Republicans. Buckley Institute It also says the largest skew is in the humanities, where it reports 88.0% Democrat, 10.8% independent, 1.2% Republican across 409 identified humanities faculty (a 72:1 Democrat-to-Republican ratio there). Buckley Institute For the graduate schools it examined, Buckley reports the School of Management is 77.2% Democrat and 1.0% Republican (78:1), and Yale Law School is 93.9% Democrat, 4.6% independent, 1.5% Republican. Buckley Institute Finally, Buckley frames the gap by comparing these figures to national party ID (they cite Gallup’s broad picture of Dem/Rep each around ~30% with independents larger) and to Connecticut registration shares, arguing Yale is far out of alignment with both.