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An Academic Question
New York Times ^ | April 5, 2005 | Paul Krugman

Posted on 04/05/2005 12:47:12 PM PDT by guitarist

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Whacko. I leave it to you, fellow FReepers, to tear it up into bite-sized pieces for me. Guitarist
1 posted on 04/05/2005 12:47:14 PM PDT by guitarist
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Today, even Republicans like Representative Chris Shays concede that it has become the "party of theocracy."

Leave it to the Times to provide another unbalanced look at an issue.

2 posted on 04/05/2005 12:48:59 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: guitarist

This guy comes from the same cesspool as cynthia tucker--not worth reading or talking about.


3 posted on 04/05/2005 12:51:23 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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College faculties are overwhelmingly liberal because conservatives and libertarians keep forking over money to send their kids to these places.


4 posted on 04/05/2005 12:51:26 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: guitarist

Krugmania.

But look at the bright side. He's now apparently arguing that wildly disparate outcomes are not evidence of discrimination. LOL


5 posted on 04/05/2005 12:51:41 PM PDT by the Real fifi
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Well, this explains a question I've had for a long time:

Why is that most Birkenstock-wearing, pot-smoking, flag-burning, hybrid-driving, gun-fearing, crime-loving, freedom-hating, tax-increasing, atheistic, Darwinistic, pussies register Democrat while real men register Republican?

"Self-selection"


6 posted on 04/05/2005 12:55:20 PM PDT by PeterFinn (The Holocaust was perfectly legal.)
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The NY Times fails to register the fact that most scientists, physicists, and biologists are conservative in their political affiliation. Conservative does not mean fundamentalist Christian. He has set up a strawman argument and then argues that the Republicans are trying to establish a theocracy by misrepresenting the views of one Congressman.

This article is unworthy of the title of journalism.


7 posted on 04/05/2005 12:56:11 PM PDT by reallygone
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Isn't it the liberals that assert that if a minority group is not proportionally represented in a profession, it's the result of racial discrimination that must be remedied with affirmative action?
But to some extent, there may be a degree of 'self selection' in the field of academics. Liberals are inclined to make life miserable for those who don't rubber stamp their ideology. I couldn't imagine choosing academia where even mentioning that one is Christian results in nonstop hate and villification. I only succeeded in completing college by knowing enough to contain my viewpoints, and I couldn't wait to get out.


8 posted on 04/05/2005 12:58:34 PM PDT by Spok
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There is an old canard, "those who can...do, those who can't...teach". In that manner, the NY Times may be correct. Since the liberals "can't do" they "teach".


9 posted on 04/05/2005 12:58:36 PM PDT by reallygone
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Keynes was right once and they crowned him god of economics. Ronald Reagan could show you on a cocktail napkin more about economics than John Maynard Keynes ever knew. Further, they should teach Hayek and von Mises over Keynes because Hayek and von Mises and Friedman and Sowell are the inheritors of Smith and Ferguson, and we are a capitalist nation. Let them teach Keynes and Marx in France.


10 posted on 04/05/2005 12:59:45 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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It suits me fine to have academia overrun with liberals ... they're not out screwing up in the real world where they might do actual damage, and we always know where to find them if we ever need them.
11 posted on 04/05/2005 1:01:25 PM PDT by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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Those that can, do...those that can't...well, you know.


12 posted on 04/05/2005 1:01:59 PM PDT by Lekker 1 ("There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be attainable"- Albert Einstein)
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ReallyGone:

You hit the nail on the head. Conservatives tend to have real jobs in the "dreaded private sector" (as talk show host Howie Carr here in MA likes to refer to it).

Liberals on the other hand tend to seek out sinecures in the foundations and academic worlds.

Bill


13 posted on 04/05/2005 1:03:04 PM PDT by BillDon
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The simple fact is that fewer conservatives try to get PhDs than liberals. We abandoned that battlefield years ago and are now paying the price. If we want it back, we have to fight for it by getting those advanced degrees. Fortunately the number of Conservatives in the grad schools is increasing. We must continue if we want a voice in academia.


14 posted on 04/05/2005 1:07:53 PM PDT by flying Elvis
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The trouble has to do with public funding.

Can a Republican in good conscience accept tax dollars as an employee of a state university?


15 posted on 04/05/2005 1:11:43 PM PDT by mc6809e
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To: guitarist
My brother in law is a professor at a major university and he is as Conservative as they come. He is in the sciences however so politics are not a big deal.
16 posted on 04/05/2005 1:13:42 PM PDT by Uncle Hal
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To: guitarist

Wow!!! Talk about incongruity!!

Krugman, NYT and Academic!!!!


17 posted on 04/05/2005 1:16:14 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: guitarist

Why is this surprising? Look it is also possible that a lower starting pay for college teaching does not match that of starting with corporations or lawyering. After all Republicans have better business heads and money does matter, so why should a smart Republican teach?


18 posted on 04/05/2005 1:20:46 PM PDT by ex-snook (Exporting jobs and the money to buy America is lose-lose..)
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Coincidentally, Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online completely deconstructs Krugturds arguement.

Link to the Krugturd deconstruction

19 posted on 04/05/2005 1:37:08 PM PDT by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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Thread with Jonah's piece posted here
20 posted on 04/05/2005 1:40:26 PM PDT by mattdono ("Crush the democrats, drive them before you, and hear the lamentations of the scumbags" -Big Arnie)
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