{"id":5340,"date":"2010-01-20T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/chicken-or-egg.html"},"modified":"2010-01-20T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:46:31","slug":"chicken-or-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/chicken-or-egg.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicken or Egg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Chomsky-10910.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/120\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/Chomsky-thumb-333x376-10910.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Chomsky.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here&#8217;s a clip from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/18\/arts\/18liberal.html?em\">NYTimes on what comes first &#8212; liberalism or professor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal, they should ask why so many liberals &#8212; and so few conservatives &#8212; want to be professors.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a clip from the NYTimes on what comes first &#8212; liberalism or professor: The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. Now new research suggests that critics may have been asking the wrong question. Instead of looking at why most professors are liberal,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gospel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chicken or Egg? - Jesus Creed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/01\/chicken-or-egg.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chicken or Egg? - Jesus Creed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here&#8217;s a clip from the NYTimes on what comes first &#8212; liberalism or professor: The overwhelmingly liberal tilt of university professors has been explained by everything from outright bias to higher I.Q. scores. 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