I don’t want to make it a habit, or at least not a major preoccupation, to ridicule stupid people. In fact, I’ve been telling myself that in 2009 I’ll concentrate on smart people. But then I ran across this ridiculous thing written by a guy named Rich Galen. The name didn’t ring any bells, but […]
Also tagged Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, culture war, Evan Sayet, Rich Galen, Roger Kimball, Thomas SowellThe first time I voted was 1980, when Reagan knocked Carter out of a second term. I don’t even remember how I got my news back then, but I do remember that everyone was very grim around Reed College, where the unofficial motto was “Communism - Atheism - Free Love” and the hard-core set walked […]
Also tagged Barack Obama, liestoppersKevin Mattson says that his new book, Rebels All! A Short History of the Conservative Mind in Postwar America, ends with a look at
…the rise of what I call “postmodern conservatism”—how an almost poststructuralist embrace of diversity and criticism of universal values informs the wars against “objectivity” and the mainstream media, the dominance of evolution […]
Also tagged culture war, intellectual diversityA few months ago I posted about the reactions when a Duke philosophy professor, interviewed in the campus paper, invoked a John Stuart Mill quote about stupidity and conservatives in order to explain the relative lack of conservative academics. More and more surfers have been finding that post with searches like this:
js mill conservatives stupid […]
Also tagged Barack Obama, culture war, John McCain, Politics, potbangers, tribalismBack in 2004 the Duke Conservative Union (DCU) looked up the political party affiliation of 178 Duke faculty members in the humanities and then took out an ad in the Duke Chronicle announcing that the vast majority were registered Democrats. Only 8 were registered Republicans. A day later the paper ran a lengthy piece with […]
Also tagged Alan Kors, culture war, Duke lacrosse, Duke University, Erin O'Connor, intellectual diversity, KC Johnson, Michael Gustafson