Jesse Taylor at Pandagon absolutely owns Goldberg. The National Review goon is now undoubtedly Taylor's bitch.
Scrotum Tighter...Tighter...
Dammit, I want the National Review to pay me to write insane horseshit.
The longtime complaint of conservatives about the "liberal academy" is that conservatives are forced out, seemingly, by roving bands of Stalinist postmodernists. Taking their hammers and sickles, they rove through campus libraries, burning stacks of Milton Friedman and Leo Strauss (they figure the heavy nicotine smell of Ayn Rand's books is more than enough to turn them off to any sensitive liberal mind) and having fraternity-style brandings of Susan Sontag's autographs on the buttocks of all new hires.
The longtime complaint of conservatives is also that conservatives don't want to be in the academy anyway, because a basic tenet of conservatism is that you use your education and skills to make money. Goldberg even uses it, because the longtime complaint of conservatives is also that liberals are just abnormal.
The longtime complaint of conservatives is also that conservatives don't want to be in the academy anyway, because a basic tenet of conservatism is that you use your education and skills to make money. Goldberg even uses it, because the longtime complaint of conservatives is also that liberals are just abnormal.
But my Dad's explanation always sounded more plausible. Conservatives are more normal. Greed may keep someone from joining the Peace Corps. But temperamentally conservative people see their investment in an academic degree as, well, an investment. Silly rabbits.
It's a ticket to a better life where they can raise a family, buy a home, even help in their community. This seems to me to be the human or natural impulse. The desire to go straight into academia is the more abnormal one. That doesn't mean it's bad. Some people, liberals and conservatives alike, just love teaching. Others want to give something back. Yet others are terrified of the real world. Some science types can explain how a quark travels through 12 dimensional space, but are absolutely clueless about how to make toast. And, some liberal crusaders have the selfish desire to shortchange their families in order to turn the classroom into a secular pulpit where they are the center of attention.
You'll have to explain to me where his deep and abiding knowledge of the liberal academy comes from, and where this horde of family-punishing academics resides. Does Yale calculate salaries based on the exact amount that will stick it your infant? Does the University of Michigan build a bigger dais for you the more potential your spouse has to pursue a non-academic career? Does UCLA do random Bible sweeps in university houses? (And why even throw in the secular bit - there are thousands of university theologians at "secular" schools who don't get paid any more than other professors.)
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