The decline of conservatives in academia in the humanities and social sciences (other than economics) post-dates the conservative movement&#x27;s dismissal of the value of those fields and is a natural consequence of it: if you are part of a political movement which rejects the value of a field of work, you are less likely to seek to work in that field (and, conversely, if you value work in a particular field, you are more likely to split from a political movement that does not.)<p>If conservatives started painting those fields as valuable fields for scholarship which needed more conservative scholars, the gap would, I suspect, substantially disappear within a generation.