Blogroll addition and moonbat taxonomy
I have taken the liberty of adding John and Belle have a blog to the blogroll at right.
As an introduction, here is an excellent post on This whole conservatives in academia thing.
[wik] Speaking of conservatives: Via Volokh, I see that Kieran of Crooked Timber has discovered that David Horowitz has drifted deep, deep into moonbat territory never to return. Jeez. Back away slowly.
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J,
J,
You may be familiar with my Draft-Dodger Theory.
Consider the tidal wave of advanced study and advanced degrees awarded while this country maintained a conscription program. Do you think so many young men, more than any before them, were suddenly devoted to scholarly inquiry? Or were they avoiding conscription by staying in school- any school, any program- as long as they could to garner that deferment?
This idea also relates to the current dearth in academic jobs, in that so many new PhDs flooded the market through the Vietnam era and subsequently took their places as tenured faculty, they effectively shut the door on many who would like to have followed behind.
So it follows that if a portion, perhaps a significant portion, of American humanities academics took PhDs in the Vietnam era, they would have a sympathy toward the Left of the political spectrum. They were evading the draft, or at least students during the time, and if not going on trips to Hanoi with Jane Fonda, it seems reasonable to propose that many of them were sympathetic to her cause.
Not all of course- VD Hanson is a product of the time, as are many other Right leaning writers and thinkers. But it is the Left that holds a death grip on humanities faculties across the country, particularly on the most prestigious faculties. Now, those former hippies are in senior, influential positions and wield huge influence over hiring. The Left is the collective gatekeeper of academic hiring.
But I don't believe that there is a nationwide shadowy conspiracy to deny conservative thought on campuses (well, besides the usual campus clubs, but I'm talking faculty here, not students). I just think that there are certain ideas/ideals shared by alot of that population that came into academia in the 60s and early 70s, and sometimes those ideas are communicated as bias.
GL has just said it better
GL has just said it better than I could have.
John,
John,
Speaking of moonbat taxonomy, are you familiar with disturbed paranoid artist and file-keeper Mark Lombardi?
His prints describe graphically the interrelations between various companies and people; I have a print of his Harken Energy/Goerge Bush/Osama one.
Bio and prints here