Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, will be stepping down June 30. His announcement predated the political and plagiarism fumbles of his counterparts at Harvard and Penn, Claudine Gay and Liz Magill. In New Haven, all eyes are on Salovey’s potential successor. Leadership matters.

Yet it’s hard to see how Yale is going to reform itself while intellectual conformity persists in respect of its faculty. Given that almost 100 percent of politically active Yale professors donate to Democrats, a strong president may not make much of a difference. And the Democrat-saturated lineup of university faculty is not unique to Yale, nor is it a response to dubious Republican claims of an illegitimate presidential election.

In 2018, an associate professor of business at Brooklyn College, Mitchell Langbert, disclosed that many university departments do not employ even a single Republican. At Williams, there are 132 Democratic professors to every one Republican professor. That same year, 96 percent of political donations by Yale faculty went to........

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