If university faculty and students have been both lauded and derided for being bastions of liberal thought, why are they politically impotent?

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Just as Donald Trump routinely claims that mainstream Democrats are actually socialists or even communists, it has become a cliché to assert that many social science professors are dangerous radicals. Even New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has suggested that it is easier to find Marxists in some social science disciplines than Republicans.

The truth, however, is that while many social scientists and historians lean towards the Democratic Party, very few of them do more than vote or sometimes contribute to electoral campaigns. The number of academics who are serious allies of movements for social, racial, or environmental justice is pitifully small.

That many allegedly liberal or leftist academics are disengaged from real political struggles is a paradox, and this paradox creates a huge problem because of the right-wing’s success in building a powerful apparatus for disseminating misleading ideas.
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