I'd be interested to hear more from Josh about why he finds Dan Klein's work on the political identifcation of college faculty to be improper.

A recent missive from the AAC&U on "Academic Freedom and Educational Responsibility" includes the following:

Intellectual Diversity and the Indispensable Role of Liberal Education

In any education of quality, students encounter an abundance of intellectual diversity—new knowledge, different perspectives, competing ideas, and alternative claims of truth.

If this is true, then wouldn't colleges want to measure the actual extent of intellectual diversity among the faculty? If colleges really believe in this, then Dan's works shows that they ought to be ashamed at a the gross imbalances in political views among the faculty. Dan is trying, so far as I can see, simply to shame colleges and universities into living up to their own claims of intellectual diversity. I don't think Dan is calling for any kind of legal or policy remedy like affirmative action for conservative/libertarian professors ala David Horowitz's ridiculous Academic Bill of Rights.