Posted on 10/11/2017 5:58:27 AM PDT by C19fan
It's not often you'll find these 24 names in the same place. They are historians and musicians, computer scientists and social activists, writers and architects. But whatever it may read on their business cards (if they've even got business cards), they now all have a single title in common: 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
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That is close to what I was thinking.
I bet not one is conservative, or a promoter of limited government.
Yes I just spent some time reading the link and actually reviewed some of the material. A waste of time.
Conservatives need not apply. This is the Big Government/Big Business cabal supporting the graduates of Leftist educational institutions.
What was it William F. Buckley said about the first one hundred people in the phone book? Geez. These guys are really genius’s?
Not a genius among them; sad.
After the outing of sexual harasser Dems, when is somebody going to make the ‘Party of Money’ stick to them? They are ALL about the money. The MacArthur Grants are political, just as the Nobel Prizes are. Period. Oh, and the Fulbright Scholarships, etc., etc., too.
$625,000 as of 2013.
Jason De León, an anthropologist who studies and preserves the objects left behind by people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, tells NPR’s Kelly McEvers he’s got an idea of how he’s planning to use that money: “Pay off my student loans,” the 40-year-old scholar laughs.
Huh-huh.
“40 year old scholar”...with STUDENT LOANS!!!
If Mr. De Leon went to grad school he could have been around 30 by the time he finished.
Beyond the three geeks and *maybe”* the Vietnamese fellow, they are 100% totalitarian nihilists, fully intent on the eradication of Western Civilization.
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