Hello and welcome to the political ordinate, an eye on the storm, a shelter from partisan winds, a place where nice thinking, overwhelmingly attractive people sit in audio armchairs and think big thoughts.

And here's my thought for today, my question for today,

why are universities so progressive?

Why are there so few conservatives and libertarians dawning elbow patches at America's thinkeries?

Let's find out.

My guest today is Matt Sinkowitz. He is an associate professor and the chair of Boston College Communication Department and the author and editor of the comedy studies reader.

And so Matt is here, is my friend in academia,

but he's not officially speaking on behalf of Boston College,

though he is a respected academic there.

And while we're gonna be talking about universities and political bias therein, we actually know each other through comedy.

Yeah, no, that's right how it came to you from a project I was working on, which a book we've come out in a little while looking at the

conservative side of the comedy spectrum. I came across you as a libertarian. I know right-wing left-wing

is not your thing thing but you know certainly

you've had some experience on the right side of the spectrum and I and I'll

I'll admit I follow if we're going to create a binary I am in the non-progressive binary I guess so I understand how I got there that's right and so that's where where we

I interviewed you for that and the tables have turned so we'll see how me and I'm keep perhaps. I'm not worried about it. I enjoy talking to you and this is we've just

chatted several times as just like nice conversations since we met via that and I actually visited

you when I was in when I was covering the New Hampshire

primaries went down and hung out with you at Boston College and we were kicking around

ideas for this and something that I'm very interested in is why are universities

left leaning and that's kind of the presumption and I think the

data backs it up that professors specifically and administrators tend to be

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