because the pay in the corporate world is much more lucrative and conservatives care more about becoming rich than scholarly research. I don't have any evidence to back that claim up, but it's about as solid as the statistics that Maranto cites. My favorite quote is this:

"Yet during much of my two decades in academia, I've been on the 'far right' as one who thinks that welfare reform helped the poor, that the United States was right to fight and win the Cold War, and that environmental regulations should be balanced against property rights."

Give me a break. Those claims are absolutely bogus and only serve to try to paint liberals as some crazy Communist contingent. The Post should have never printed such a ridiculous statement. It would be like me saying, in my life experience, all conservatives think we should shoot every Muslim, taser every immigrant (unless they're mowing their lawn), and make sure that a woman who is raped has no say over her own body. See, that's actually only true for many on the "far right," not all.