The Academic Trumpists: Radicals Against Liberal Diversity

Matt Dawson and David L. Swartz discuss The Academic Trumpists on the New Books in Sociology podcastReviewed by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Ed'Donald Trump wants to dismantle the Department of Education.Some professors would welcome it', by David L. Swartz in SalonThere has been an outpouring of research on populist conservatism since the advent of the Trump presidency and extreme right movements in Europe.Much less studied, however, is the growing political conservatism in the American academy and how it relates to populist sentiment.The Academic Trumpists addresses a gap in the research literature by looking at the impact of Trumpism on conservative faculty.It compares 109 professors who publicly support Trump to 89 conservative professors who oppose Trump.All 198 function as public intellectuals who advocated publicly their views. Drawing on recent research in the sociology of intellectuals and Pierre Bourdieu’s analytical field perspective, this book offers a fielding political