Case closed: there's no longer any way to deny it: college campuses are the most politically undiverse places in America.

Back in 1995--in the September/October issue of The American Enterprise, just my fifth installment as editor--we at TAE put together the first systematic study documenting imbalances in the political choices of American professors.

We sent Cornell University student Kenneth Lee and a counterpart at Stanford University trudging down to the elections bureaus in the counties where their colleges are based. Armed with faculty lists, they counted up the party registrations of their institutions' instructors.

By the time we were done, we had located 199 Cornell professors and 186 Stanford profs who had registered themselves as either Democrats or Republicans ...