DAPHNE PATAI on higher education’s diversity problem. “Faculty are far more monolithic in their views, as we all know. Even in settings that are supposedly not political this always come up. So almost the only sorts of political comments I ever hear made in passing by colleagues are anti-conservative dismissals. There’s no ‘other side.’ I’d have to go to specifically conservative events or groups, of which there are very few anyway, to be among people with different assumptions. . . . What I find irritating is not just the ideological uniformity but even more so the presumption that everyone thinks the same way. It seems never to dawn on most academics that someone in their midst might actually disagree with them about politics.”