Academic credentialism marginalizes conservatives

Academic editorial practices and prestige hierarchies systematically privilege authors with elite university affiliations, which tends to exclude or trivialize conservative intellectuals because there are very few conservative faculty at major institutions. As a result, written accounts of the New Right risk being filtered through a narrow set of credentialed critics rather than encountering a broader intellectual ecosystem. — If true, this makes debates about conservative ideas and their public reception a problem of institutional access and gatekeeping, not just argument quality—affecting who shapes national narratives and policy frames.