If some conservatives would quit their jobs at the investment bank and come over here to State U and work (without benefits, sick time, pension, vacation time) for $10 an hour, hey, then they could promulgate their own beliefs all they want.

I’m not holding my breath. Only liberals would work for such lousy pay, because we think we are privileged to be able to do good in teaching our nation’s young people how to think and read and write and all that.

But frankly, it’s their own greed that’s keeping them from being allowed to indoctrinate America’s youth. It just doesn’t pay well enough.

P.S. I am ridiculously scrupulous, btw, to keep my own political beliefs out of the classroom, if only because I know there’s always some student who would take it to the dean. Heck, I might be fired from my well-paying job, huh?

How much damage do you think David Horowitz and his ilk can do? I thought his “101 most dangerous professors” or whatever it was called was laughable. But the hysterical McCarthyite tone of these people worries me. Sometimes it’s people who harangue the loudest, who get heard (& believed.) Should we be worried?

On the one hand, Horowitz is a joke, and his “research” is easily knocked down (check out the Horowitz Fact Checker at the Free Exchange site). On the other hand, he is plugged in to the Right Wing Wurlitzer and is incredibly well-funded, which gives him a platform to shout his lunatic ravings. Unfortunately, over the last 6 years we’ve seen that the sheer force of repetition can create public perceptions that are far-removed from any sort of reality. We have to counter his message in the public. The advantages we have are a motivated grassroots and netroots and (more importantly) actual facts.

Bush’s gift to Gordon Brown says soooooooooooo much about how big an asshole he is.

I saw the jacket. It’s merch. Bush gave Gordon Brown some “Mission Accomplished” merch. Bush would have done better to give Brown a MC Rove concert T .

@Mui:

sounds like you aren’t cut out for the kind of scholarship they are offering up at Grove City! Glad you found the post, um, of interest.

How much damage do you think David Horowitz and his ilk can do? I thought his “101 most dangerous professors” or whatever it was called was laughable. But the hysterical McCarthyite tone of these people worries me. Sometimes it’s people who harangue the loudest, who get heard (& believed.) Should we be worried?

sounds like you aren’t cut out for the kind of scholarship they are offering up at Grove City! Glad you found the post, um, of interest.