My daughter is a rising star at Clemson - she has been embraced by the wonderful professors in the Institute. I be proud poppa.
Posted on 02/05/2011 2:18:11 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown University is offering a new course on conservatism this spring that its supporters say will help bring ideological balance to the school’s offerings.
The course, "Modern Conservatism in America: Conservative Thought in the 20th Century," was developed as part of a project called Conservatism 101.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
With guest lecturer Mitt Romney.
I can’t imagine it’ll get fair treatment. But at least they’ll assing some good homework: Kirk, Buckley, Chambers, Hayek, Friedman, Eliot, Weaver, Strauss, Voegelin, and Bork, perhaps?
The issue isn’t course selection, its the hiring of faculty.
assing = assign
I didn't catch your first typo. But now that you "corrected" it, it's dang funny!
Brown must be struggling to attract the children of capitalists who can pay full tuition, room and board.
My daughter is a rising star at Clemson - she has been embraced by the wonderful professors in the Institute. I be proud poppa.
As an Conservative-Freeper Professor at another Ivy League institution, I would gladly volunteer to give a guest lecture at Brown on how to survive and possibly thrive when you are the smallest minority group on campus.
It is probably being taught by the foreign languages dept so graduates will be equipped to communicate with us here in Fly-Over country.
The course is being taught as a group independent study for 5 students by Steven G. Calabresi, Visiting Professor in the Political Science dept at Brown.
From Wikipedia:
Calabresi is a law professor at Northwestern University. After graduating cum laude from Yale University, he attended Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal, and went on to clerk for The Hon. Robert Bork on the D.C. Circuit and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court
Calabresi served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush from 1985-1990.[1] During that time, he advised Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Reagan Domestic Policy Chief T. Kenneth Cribb and wrote speeches for Bush Vice President Dan Quayle.[2]
Calabresi joined the Northwestern faculty in 1990 and has since published more than 30 articles in law reviews. He was the George C. Dix Professor of Constitutional Law for 1998–2000 and 2004-2007. Calabresi also co-founded the Federalist Society chapter at Northwestern and serves as chairman of its Board of Directors.
Change the name of the course to “Americanism”.
That’s a more accurate term for conservatism anyway.
Can we have their New World Order microchips removed first?
I’m guessing that their list of ‘conservatives’ to study will include Hitler, Mussolini, and if they want to be really broad minded, Roosevelt.
LOL!
Of course they offer a class in conservatism. That’s far easier than wasting staff and money teaching the Classics, economics, objective history, science and engineering, and critical thinking. You teach those this instead, and conservatism just sort of happens.
The other, equally possible option is that this is really a survey course or opposition research.
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