Some of the country’s most conservative universities are found in Virginia, according to a list produced by the Young America’s Foundation.

Here’s a story that will raise eyebrows among academic readers: Courtesy of Crooked Timber1 comes news from late last month that Thomson Reuters has filed suit against the Commonwealth of Virginia,2 seeking an injunction against George Mason University to prevent the school from distributing Zotero, a Firefox plugin for managing references and citations. The lawsuit claims that Zotero violates the license agreement for EndNote, Thomson Reuters’s citations management software, because Zotero converts the proprietary .ens…