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A colleague is trying out the Kindle, which has inevitably made me want one, despite my skepticism. But I’m not sold yet: its browser capabilities have received bad reviews, and the function I would chiefly use an e-book reader for, reading free PDF books, is only available with the $489 Kindle DX. (Yes, I know [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology, academia
In his introduction to Oakeshott’s The Voice of Liberal Learning, Timothy Fuller elaborates upon MO’s symbol of education as a conversation:
The word ‘conversation’ evokes the manner of the ‘conversationalist,’ taken by Oakeshott as one who is the agent of a flow of sympathy, not the utterer of a truth. The conversationalist is neither a lawgiver [...]
A friend asks me if I can nominate a list of five liberal classics parallel to the five conservative classics covered below. It’s a much harder task since postwar liberalism has been more diffuse and specialized. But in terms of bedrock Cold War liberalism — without branching off into the New Left and various identity [...]
A liberal columnist for the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has seen the future, and it’s Ron Paul:
Over the past 40 years, the trend among young political activists has been the same: The young Left has fought the older generations of the Right (perhaps because it’s simply more fun), with no thought [...]
A little over a decade ago as an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis I started a campus conservative paper called the Washington Witness. It’s still going, at least intermittently. I’ve continued to contribute the occasional piece, such as this one, since beginning to make a living out of what I used to do [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, academia
I should expand upon something in my post below: the bigger problem for conservatives and libertarians in higher education today is not political bias but methodology. In economics, for example, while there are Keynesians who seek to impose their views upon everyone else, even many non-Keynesians would object to teaching Ludwig von Mises and Murray [...]
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The National Association of Scholars is investigating whether liberal professors are disproportionately assigning liberal texts in their classes. Writes Peter Wood at NRO:
We … want to be above reproach in building lists of authors and works of comparable importance in their respective traditions. The final lists may include both high-brow and mass-market authors, as long [...]
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The project — well, a project — that has been taking my spare time away from ye olde Tory Anarchist is the new publication of Young Americans for Liberty, the Young American Revolution, for which I’m serving as editorial director. The first issue will be out in about a week and features, among other things, [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Liberty, academia, magazines
Washington University — my alma mater, and also Phyllis Schlafly’s — is planning to award her an honorary doctorate. Predictably, the campus Left is outraged — and desperate to derail the accoldae.
I happen to think the practice of awarding honoring doctorates is ridiculous, but Schlafly is one of Wash U’s most famous alumnae and a [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, academia
This Time article from Feb. 10, 1961 shows some of the best and worst traits of the early conservative student movement.
As Editor Peter Stuart of the Michigan Daily puts it: “The signs point to a revival of interest in individualism and decentralization of power—principles espoused by John Locke and Thomas Jefferson and [...]
Filed under: Books, Conservatism, Liberty, academia