One solution: normalize desk-rejections. After a fast first assessment, papers are either desk-rejected, or go to full review. The current conf peer-review system has desk rejects as the exception, as it relied on self-selection prior to submission and small numbers. Neither of these hold anymore.

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That’s literally what the data says happens! Student-professor interactions tend to moderate students!

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Some selection bias here in terms of "the politics of the student body overall" vs. "the politics that people who subscribe to WSJ for the op-eds think their children had before going to college".

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Sir, I’m happy if I can get all my students to do the reading and come to class on time consistently.

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This framing assumes professors are all more leftist than our students. My median undergraduate comes to my classes with politics to the left of mine. If I were trying to “convert them” politically, which is absolutely not my goal, I would be turning them more moderate, not more radical.

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