Normally, being a light-rather-than-heat kind of guy, I can resist the temptation to link to red-state bashing (like, say, Jane Smiley’s Slate essay). But this isn’t bashing, it’s just a map! Raw data in easily digested graphical form, completely free of ideological influence. Tim Lambert has noticed that the THES list of the world’s top universities is dominated by U.S. institutions, and has produced a handy guide for locating where they are.
Of course, if David Horowitz has his way and unqualified conservatives are legislated into university positions, maybe we can even things out by removing top-ranked universities from the U.S. entirely.