How Liberal is UChicago?

JHS
Fri, 22 Sep 2017 14:14:39 +0000

There are many, many libertarian, free-market type conservatives at Chicago, on the faculty and among the students, both undergraduate and graduate. In humanities, there are some champions of classical Western Civilization – which is a lot more than one could say about most humanities faculties. There are plenty of religious people, although they span a wide spectrum – Catholics, mainstream Protestants, Evangelicals, Muslims, Hindus, liberal Jews, orthodox Jews, other faiths – so that no particular group feels like anything but a minority. (And all the people who consider themselves religiously observant put together are still probably a minority of all students.)

What there aren’t a lot of are so-called “movement conservatives” – culture-war people who are upset about things like marriage equality and sex ed, biblical literalists, etc. People who identify strongly with those positions may not feel comfortable.