Letter to the Editor: A reply to Klein and Stern

Klein and Stern (hereafter KS-2007) have several problems withour article ("Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony"), with themost general being their contention that we "misrepresent" theirwork. Most of this hinges on their claim that, while they studiedthe proportion of faculty who register or vote Democratic orRepublican (their D:R ratio), we treated this as equivalentto a measure of liberalism versus conservatism. KS-2007 go onto say that we "impute ideological content" to their resultswhile they themselves claim the intellectual high road as havingbeen very careful not to conflate voting or party registrationwith