trinydex - Read the entire thread. ForeignDude and others have come to the same conclusion as you. Not everyone is a liberal in academia, but the liberals do tend to dominate the political dialogue on most college campuses. And it has been noted that certain disciplines are less politicized than others. Physics is one of those disciplines.
I think the liberalism (or lack thereof) present in reflected the political bent of the professor teaching it. I majored in both history and pyschology during my time at UCLA. I also minored in Asian-American studies. Asian-American studies courses were pretty liberal as a whole. Psychology were so-so, although the introduction to social psychology class that I took seemed decidedly liberal. History was not a very liberal field in my experience, but then again I tended to take courses like "military history from end of the Renaissaince to the Napoleonic Wars" and not "the history of women."
I applaud your objectivity and critical thinking during your college years. But you have to remember that most young college students are still finding themselves at that stage of their lives. Many of them are highly malleable, and many of their teachers in academia are of the liberal persuasion.
I think the liberalism (or lack thereof) present in reflected the political bent of the professor teaching it. I majored in both history and pyschology during my time at UCLA. I also minored in Asian-American studies. Asian-American studies courses were pretty liberal as a whole. Psychology were so-so, although the introduction to social psychology class that I took seemed decidedly liberal. History was not a very liberal field in my experience, but then again I tended to take courses like "military history from end of the Renaissaince to the Napoleonic Wars" and not "the history of women."
I applaud your objectivity and critical thinking during your college years. But you have to remember that most young college students are still finding themselves at that stage of their lives. Many of them are highly malleable, and many of their teachers in academia are of the liberal persuasion.