Report - Yale University Faculty Is 3% Republican!

The Yale University study, conducted by the Buckley Institute, highlights the problem with our universities. These are the "experts" in all fields, and they skew not "heavily," but almost exclusively to the left.

South Korea is giving couples $29,000 to date, marry, and have kids.

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Welcome to Quick Show today. Today is December 23rd, 2025. Moving very quickly
to Christmas Day this year. Today we're going to be covering the well, you've
heard me use the term the religion of academia. We're going to go over why that religion has developed and
fulmented so much over the last almost 100 years. and a new study that came out
from the Buckley Institute written up in the New York Post and other publications
about Yale University. And we'll look at some other demographics, some other
statistics from other universities and show you what is happening in the world of higher education in the United
States. We're also going to cover a program in South Korea. South Korea has
the lowest fertility rate in the world and something that seems to be helping
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All right. A new study has come out on Yale University from the Buckley
Institute, right? They have a report that had some findings that are remarkable
uh in the sense that they need to be remarked on and it is disturbing to to
see what has unfolded in the universities over the last number of years uh decades, the last number of
decades especially. Here is what we have as the headline to the New York Post
article. It says, "Nearly 30 Yale undergraduate departments have no Republican faculty." The Buckley
Institute report finds. Now, think about that for a minute. It's 27 actually is the actual number. 27
departments at Yale University do not have a single uh person or faculty
member that has identified as being a Republican. That is incredible.
Absolutely incredible. And the numbers at these elite universities that we have today that are basically the motor
behind academia throughout the entire United States where we find our experts
at are almost identical in these numbers. And we've seen this tick up
higher and higher over the over the years in terms of the number of those that identify on the left or identify as
Democrats. Now, this is not being anti-left. This is being anti anti-institutional
and and the an institutions that have been absolutely captured, especially academia,
by by an unchecked side of the political spectrum. So, let's take a look a little bit
deeper into what the report finds here in this article. A recent report, it
says from the Buckley Institute found that there are no Republican faculty members across 27 departments at Yale
University. For the third year in a row, our research has highlighted the significant political and ideological
imbalance among Yale's faculty. Lauren Noble, founder and executive director of the Buck Buckley Institute, said in a
statement. Let me let me go on a little further here. Yale has committed repeatedly over decades to fostering an
environment conducive to open debate. What debate? Open debate and discussion,
but has all but excluded diversity of opinion through its hiring process. Well, this is partially a normal thing.
In other words, when when you have people that get put into department heads and deans of colleges,
university presidents, etc., you end up from coming out of a certain network.
And so those people that you know uh that that are within your your your
realm of influence and of friendship and of colleagues are of the same polit political persuasion oftentimes.
But there is definitely a a turn here or or not a turn but but it's it's it's a
spiral, right? The the more you move, let's say you are at a 7030 split at one
point, which is only a few decades ago. And so you've got a 7030 split where it's 70% on the left and 30% on the
right. And and and so what what's going to start to happen there? Well, you're outnumbered already by more than two to
one on one side versus the other. And so that's going to be the dominant voice.
It's going to attract people for that that that agree with that dominant voice. It's going to repel those that do
not agree with that voice. Some people might feel ostracized. They feel like they want to leave and get out of the
situation. I've seen this very closely happen to a couple of departments and
and at at BYU, BYU Provo and BYU Hawaii and a little bit at BYU Idaho. So, this
is a this is a normal thing to happen in academia. It's a normal thing to happen anywhere in any institution, any
organization is you start getting a monolith of ideology, political ideology that starts
to take over. And and of course, what's the problem with that? Well, imagine you're in a department, an English
department, and you're starting to look at, you start really infusing
post-modern uh literary criticism into the text that you're reading. Well, if
you don't have a check on that, it it's going to run a muck. It's going to go
crazy, bananas, berserko on the literary criticism be because there's no other
side to push back on what you're you're teaching to young
minds that are easily formed at this point, malleable as they've just come
out of the nest, so to speak, from their homes. And and and you've got one point of view
that just goes off the rails. And it's always going to go off the rails. And the same thing would happen the other way. If you had 90 95% 98 99% 100% of
those that identified on the right or as Republican, you're going to get a very narrow narrow point of view.
And and it's going to work the same way. But that's not the way it is in the elite universities in the United States.
It's it's the exact opposite, right? It's it's all on the left right now. And and this is something that also goes
against the trust that people have in higher institutions. And how do you stop it? Who who's going to who inside of a
university, a president, a a dean, a a department head, who's going to stand up
against their colleagues and say, you know, I don't I think we're too far to the left. Who's going to do that?
It it would be so so rare for any of that to ever happen. The only thing that
works with something like this is financial pressure in some way. That's
the only way it's going to change. And and it's interesting because I hear from certain people, well, wokeness is dead,
right? It it's the left is is has lost it because you look at Trump and you look at all the changes that are
happening in government and the policies procedures that are going into place. all of the executive orders that are
being signed. It's like, look, you don't understand. Those are all temporary. All of those things are temporary. The
institutions are fully taken over right now by the left and especially academia.
What does that mean for the future? What does that mean for how we're educating our kids? What does that mean for family
going forward? and and how an unchecked leftism in universities is
indoctrinating our children in in the universities
and yes even in a num a number of conservative universities and and even
at BYU for sure. Here's what the article says uh in addition here. It says, "With
such dramatic ideological chasm, a a dramatic ideological chasm between the
Yale campus and the country, it is not hard to see why trust for higher education is low." That that is that is
so true. So, so true. The Buckley Institute's report looked at Yale's undergraduate departments as well as its
school of management and law school. found that nearly 83% of faculty are registered Democrats or
primarily support Democratic candidates. So this is slowly ticking up. Um we saw
an elite it's it's a little above where it was just a few years ago where it was about an 8020 split among the entire
faculty at universities. So and you say well oh that's not so bad. It's it's
horrible. It's absolutely horrible because you're only going to have a few departments where this number is is is
possibly which it won't but but possibly have a anything you could even say is a
significant number of those that lean to the right which would be like in engineering and different things like
that that you would think right so it's it's in other departments as it says 27
departments have zero zero registered Republicans in
their departments. I mean, you can imagine where those are. They're probably in the humanities. I mean, just
stop and think about the hiring process for this, how how this has worked, right? Zero.
So, no one cares about diversity of opinion here. What they care about are people that are into DEI. They're
they're worried about people that are going to tow the line on diversity, equity, inclusion as long as it does not
include diversity of thought. That's a no no in these elite
universities. Moving on here, more than 15% identify as independent
and fewer than 3% are Republicans according to the report. All right, so let's back up and look at this. So you
have here actually right those that are actually
registered Republicans at Yale University. This is the going across the law school, the school of management and
undergraduate 3% 3% that are registered as Republicans
because the other 15% are independent.
What what kind of an education is that? Because no matter what the the you're
studying what no matter what a student is studying if you are ideologically possessed as this has to be and it would
be on the right if it was the same numbers on the right everything that you're doing everything you're looking
at is going to be looked through a specific lens of of leftism and yes
leftism I'm not just talking about liberal there might be a few liberal professors here but again when you have
this number of of ideologues, you're going to have it run a muck. It's going
to go nuts because there's nobody checking it. What's interesting is that in response,
Yale says this uh that it is fostering that that
what's interesting is that Yale says this in response to the report. It says that Yale is uh dedicated to fostering
quote fostering intellectual diversity at Yale. Okay, intellectual diversity. What does
that mean? Where where is the intellectual diversity here? Right? And that they are dedicated to attracting
students across the political spectrum, bolstering free speech at Yale and beyond. Whatever. No, they're not. That
that's a nice thing to say, but but that is not the case. It says the university
is however deeply committed to fostering open debate, preserving freedom of freedom of expression and creating an
environment in which a wide range of ideas can be expressed and heard civily. Is that what we see at the universities?
Is that what we see here with the free free Palestine movement? Is this tolerance for different diversity of
thought on campus? It's this is when you look at the
students that are doing this, these are 18 to 22 year olds primarily, not everyone, but but you've got basically
18 to 22 year olds. Where where are they getting this to go out and do this? Yes, there's social media. Yes, there's
organizations that are a part of, but these are the professors and others that are rounding these individuals up and
and and pushing this and and and you know, supporting it. You saw the
same thing at BYU with its its uh protest, its pride protest a few years
back. It was the professors and faculty members and administration
that members of that certain members of of faculty administration that were
supporting this and this is the same thing that you get here on these universities on the campuses of these
universities. Finally, it says together talking about their initiatives, right? These efforts
reflect Yale's long-standing dedication to academic freedom, free expression.
Yeah, we see that all the time. And constructive dialogue across differences. There is no across
differences. None. Finally, I want to look at some other elite universities to give us a
broader view of what is going on here. And maybe you're unaware of this. I
mean, I'm sure you you feel that this leans left. It doesn't lean to the left. This is a learning leaning to the left
would not be a problem. I I would probably enjoy going to a university, honestly, personally, that leaned a
little bit left, that would not be a problem for me. Not that I would choose it, but if I was in one, I I I don't
think I would have a problem with that. That's not what we're seeing. Okay. So this is a little bit difficult to see
here maybe but look at the proportion of registered Democrats versus Republicans
among faculty at elite US universities. This is from Langbert M and Stevens from
2022. Harvard 99%
among faculty is our registered Democrats.
Princeton 98% Yale 97%. We saw that right the other now this is going to be
uh it excludes the independents and non-registered individuals so this is Yale is 97% remember there were only 3%
registered Republicans there Berkeley 97% uh Democrat Colombia 96% Brown 96%
John's Hopkins 95 Duke 95 Cornell 95 Caltech 93 Stanford 91 we're getting
pretty conservative here Dartmouth 91 1 uh pen 90 and UCLA below 90 at 89%
um registered Democrats or independents on this. So this is
this is a a obviously something that has developed throughout academia. Now understand something here. When we talk
about the religion of academia, this spreads everywhere because the leading universities, right, the leading
universities, the elite universities where everyone's trying to get into, if
you've got a career path toward academia and everyone's trying to hire these
individuals that are coming out of these institutions, out of these universities,
that the these are the experts. These are the experts that we have in the United States that are that are
coming out of this type of a teaching right now. Is it no wonder that that we
have such a cultural push to the left consistently when our universities have this type of a makeup?
Our elite universities have this type of of a makeup in them. And and as an example, I mean when you say, you know,
there has been a push, this has changed over the last three or four years, five years maybe.
There's been a push at BYU, for example, to have to be the Harvard of the West.
I think it was Cecil Samuelson that that came out with that as as president originally. But but look what that
means. Again, if I go back to Harvard right now, 99% non-registered
Republicans at Harvard. So, is that what you want to be as the Harvard of the West?
and and if you're hiring out of Harvard to bring better faculty, so to speak
into BYU, what comes along with that? Yes, these are rigorous programs, so
you've got a certain level of academia that's there, but what comes along with
that? typically all of the baggage around that that comes from the ideologies that they have been immersed
in for you know what however long they've been at Harvard whether it's their undergrad
or or masters if they're getting their PhD there and and now
you know now they're at BYU and this is exactly what we've seen you you've got some radical professors that are at BYU
and everything else gets pushed out. I can't tell you how many times I have talked to uh professors at departments
that are the so lean that lean so far left especially at the department head
level and those that are around their their closest associates especially in the humanities but other places too
where you feel like everything's going crazy here I have no voice and of course they feel like they can't speak up
because they have a career path path and they rely on those individuals to give
them good marks and to give them opportunities and they've got to do with those
department heads basically right what they say and and that's where I started really
talking about the spiral of silence is actually because of BYU and these professors that would not say a word
they wouldn't say anything about what was being taught to the students because it it was it was they had all
these You know, and the truth is at BYU, these are these are the the minority by far the minority of voices that are
radical at BYU and and and but people are afraid to say
something against them. But if you walk through the halls of the humanities, I mean, you're going to see pride flags everywhere. Uh you're going to see um
anti-wright type of propaganda. You're going to see an awful lot of strange things. and you're going to say to
yourself, "This is BYU." You won't see many family proclamations
up. Let's just put it that way. I think there was one that I saw one time that was uh that was up in the human the
halls of the faculty of of humanities. But this is what you bring in and at any
anywhere and and then what starts to happen is again you have a certain ideology there and in the hiring of
bringing in new individuals if you don't fit that ideology you don't fit in our group. This is not
what we're trying to accomplish here, which is typically in those organizations when they are radical like
that. It is we're going to undo the teaching of the parents for 18 years and
show them what's real at this point, right? And and that is something that happens
at BYU Hawaii especially. I mean, you have had, you know, early retirement.
You had been have had people basically forced out that if you are conservative, if you are a male, if you are white,
massive changes there. You've got you you you a lot of professors there
don't want to stay. They don't want to stay because of the environment that is created there among the faculty and
those that are running it. And so you start getting a change, right? you start getting a change in who they attract,
who they're going to hire, what voices are going to be listened to.
And these are microcosms of of of what happens, right? But it's just I'm just bringing it up because
it's it's a little closer to the church. So out of all this, we get the religion
of academia that starts to flourish, which is basically cultural Marxism.
And yes, it's taught even at Brigham Young University. Trust me, I've got the
videos. I've got the audios. It happens there. And the thing is is what do you do? BYU
has made a number of changes over the last few years in their hiring practices, in their interview processes
each year, uh, that are basically tying things closer to the family proclamation
and feelings. You know, how do you look at the family proclamation? But you could say whatever you want in those interviews, but at least you're making a
statement as to what we're looking for and what we want here, right?
What do you do in these other universities? How do you change this? Who's going to
actually change this?
There are some signs of some of these things changing.
But you know at Yale univers but at Yale University you know last year they hired
their 24th president who was Mory McKinnis.
Uh she was the president of Stonybrook University.
She has secured at Stonybrook one of the largest uh
she secured one of the largest she secured at Stonybrook a $700 million bid
to lead the New York climate exchange campus on Governor's Island. Okay. So
what does she where does she lean?
And as we look at the scam honestly that that higher education has become, the
incredible cost for an education, the bloating of administrative positions in
these universities. One university I saw has two students
for every administrative hire. two students for every administrative hire
and anywhere where that much money is coming in from the government where you get all these loans coming in is is
going to have corruption. So the religion So the religion of academia comes out of all of this. It is
it faments because of the money that is involved here that they can hire so many
people. They hire people on the left on the far left and there's no check in
this system. And so this religion basically it is a religion just grows and grows and grows because there's no
check to it. And it dominates our universities.
And honestly, to some degree, no pun intended, we are educating our kids and
indoctrinating them as some parents are mortgaging their homes or spending their retirement
savings to educate their kids at a bloated cost. Anyway, real problem.
Lastly, I want to cover what South Korea is doing on the fertility rate.
South Korea has the lowest fertility rate in the world. It's this is a very dangerous thing. I know I talk about
this a lot, but it is it is crucial that we understand how important this is. But South Korea's birth rate has finally
increased from where it is. When we say increase, I'm trying I forget what the number is right now, but it's it's down
maybe about 1.2ish. Uh, South Korea's birth rate has finally increased after the government started
paying $29,000 in cash to couples who date and marry,
right? So, they're giving financial incentives here. Now, I don't know if this is the right way to do this. It's something, but it has obviously made a
shift in from one year to the next in their fertility rate. It actually went up a little bit. It ticked up slightly.
And it's one way to to do this, right? Right. I mean, I I was just listening to Luis Perry who was talking about, look,
we found a new study that is show I was just listening to Luis Perry.
I was just listening to Luis Perry on a podcast. She says something that is not
quite correct. I followed Luis for for a very long time. Uh number of years since
she wrote her early books on transgenderism. I don't want to say that. I've followed
Luis for I I've follow I was listening to Luis Perry on a podcast here that
I've got pulled up on here on X.
I was listening to Luis Perry on a podcast. Luis Perry I've followed for a number of years. She's talking about the
fertility rate, the birth rate, right? She says it's not contraception. In other words, these are not the problems.
It's not contraception. feminism or housing. It's just people marrying too late. The average first marriage now
over 30, right? We've now moved in the US where the average first marriage is over 30 years old. During the B baby
boom generation when when they were having kids, the average age for marriage was 22 years old. So remember,
you're looking at a woman's biological clock and you're moving it from 22 to 28
typically because yes, there are a lot of women that have kids out of out of wedlock, but the driving force behind
all of this is families. It's marriage. And so you've go from 22 to 30, 8 years.
you you're you're cutting in half or at least a third the time that women would
have to have children or want to have children at that point. Right? So she
says once married most have kids. Childless by choice are rare but loud.
Okay, this is true. However, right, she says here late marriage equals no time
for two to three kids in fertile window. That's that's not true. You could easily have three kids in your 30s, right?
simple coordination problem holding back families. Look, it does make a difference. There's no question it would make a difference, but the focus is not
on oh the it's just this is the only simple problem is that people are getting married too late. You have to
come back and say to yourself why are people getting married later. That's you
have to look at those underlying issues here. Take a look at what uh the only thing that is wrong with
fertility rates in the west is people getting married late. Lyman's take and I think it's actually a really interesting
one. He thinks that's the only problem because actually once people are married they tend to have kids. He says that
actually the number of people who are married and are deliberately not having children like the dinks. They're quite
culturally prominent but they're actually rare. The average age of first marriage now is over 30 definitely. And
the average age of marriage in general is quite old because people that get married multiple times account for disproportionate number of
Okay, so here's the problem, right? Again, what what she's saying here, she's not giving the real reasons for
not having kids because the real reasons for not having kids is the re the same reasons for not getting married earlier.
And those reasons are economic. Those reasons are feminism. Those reasons uh
are a a uh hostility that is growing between young men and young women
because our culture is pushing it. Toxic masculinity and toxic femininity, we can
call it. And and so these are the these are the underlying issues. I don't think she has any clue what she's saying here
whatsoever. Why are people getting married after 30 years old now on
average as compared to 22 during the baby boomer generation? What is the
difference between the two? One, we're boomers. In other words, lots of kids,
baby boomers, and and now we're into from the millennials down to Gen Z.
Basically, we we are looking at people waiting a longer time to get married. It
is dating. The issues that are going on in dating. It is economics. It is feminism. For sure. For sure. It is
feminism. And it it is animosity. It is distractions.
It is uh gaming for for for boys, porn for boys and men, young men, right? It's
it's a number of these different things that we're looking at in culturally that have shifted and been inserted into our
culture and into our practice for the younger generation right now. And we can
see with the South Korean program, even though a lot of these programs have failed as far as like they've gone
through and and try, especially in in the Scandinavian countries where they've tried to uh give more incentives, tax
breaks, and uh policy changes that would help financially for those that would
get married and have kids. It takes all the way to the point of let me give you $29,000.
Hey, maybe we'll get married and have kids and and we'll have this $29,000 to help us start off. Not not the best
policy in the world. I think there's actually a cultural shift that needs to happen, but we know how difficult that
is. It's the same type of thing with universities. How do you shift a culture
that is so entrenched and and trending the wrong way?
Thanks for listening. Oh,
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