In 2025, “Yale professors made
1,099 donations to federal political campaigns and partisan groups . . . Not
one of the recipients was Republican.”[1]
Other than the 2.4% of the donations that went to independent candidates or
groups, the rest—97.6%—went to Democrats. In that same year, U.S. President
Trump became very publicly critical of elite private universities receiving
federal research dollars while being so partisan (i.e., Democrat-leaning). Trump
may have been more concerned that the universities benefit by receiving the
indirect-expenses portions of federal research-grants while the professors
infuse their personal ideologies, which are in conflict with conservatism, into
their lectures. I took many, many courses, including at Yale, in my formal and
post-doctoral education, and the infusion of a professor’s ideology—nearly always
progressive—was not uncommon, especially at Yale.
The full essay is at "On Yale's Anti-Conservative Ideological Faculty."
1. Jaeha Jang, “Yale Professors Donated Overwhelmingly to Democrats in 2025,” The Yale Daily News, January 14, 2026.
