A little over 5 years ago, I made a bet against conservatives in academia. I suggested that it would be near impossible for an Ivy League history department to hire a conservative in a tenure track position. Jeffrey Miron, senior lecturer in economics at Harvard University, took me up on the bet. The terms are pretty clear. For Jeffrey to win, all that he needed to do was “sometime in the next decade, identify a conservative who has been hired in a tenure-track position at an Ivy League history department.”
I trust Jeffrey hasn’t forgotten about this bet. But since we are no halfway through the decade and he has not identified to me any recently hired conservatives in Ivy League history departments, my confidence is rising.
Michael J Douma 
I’m a history doctoral candidate in a regional Canadian university. There are no conservatives in my department, and there hasn’t been one since I arrived in 2016 to start my MA. Moreover, the political orientation has since moved even further to the left, as a result of several new hires, all of whom are female and liberal-progressive at that. On that point, with one exception, the entire full-time faculty is now female (twenty years ago it was over 95% male, I’m told, most of whom were centrists). This sex ratio re-alignment accords with empirical studies showing a predictable, positive correlation between radical progressivism and sex. At a macro level in Canada, the academic discipline of history is representative of all the humanities, in that it is now dominated by women (students and faculty), and increasingly radical progressive ideologies (all imported from the States, thank you very much). One of many unfortunate consequences is that male students are either avoiding these disciplines in the first instance, or dropping out of them later. Many others are just avoiding university altogether.
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