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 [...]
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 [...]
Brian Doherty argues that neoliberalism and (neo)conservatism aren’t nearly as dead as they ought to be.
Neoliberals by that name may be dead; neoliberalism reigns. Conservatism (especially minus libertarianism) may be out of ideas, but still commands enormous armies of dedicated voters—more than any other self-identified ideology.
To put it another way, the Soviet Union (to say [...]
From Russell Kirk’s Academic Freedom, 1955. (”Crawley” was a professor of medieval studies, and a good one, who’d had Communist ties. He disavowed them and swore he’d teach only the American Way of Life.)
…Professor Crawley never taught The American Way of Life in his classes. He did not know what The American Way of Life [...]
Not that it ever was. Here's Jesse Walker on the right-wing variety:
The neocon activist David Horowitz even toyed with the idea of "adding the categories of political and religious affiliation to Title IX and other existing legislation," thus making conservatives an officially protected class. He eventually gave up on that notion, but he's [...]
Ron Paul on what David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights really means:
Instead of fostering open dialogue and wide-raging intellectual inquiry, the main effect of the [...]