Who are the best conservative academics? (Shameless vanity)

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[watsonfellow]

With all this talk of liberal professors etc. can we come up with a list of the best professors, conservative or not, in Academia?

I nominate Catherine Pickstock at Cambridge, her work is nothing less than the total destruction of the deconstructionist ideology, especially in its dangerous views on language etc....

[Torie]

That's him. I must admit I stuggled a bit in his course. And I stuggled in when writing a term paper in another course through Leo Strauss' book on Machiavelli and his book The Florentine. What nightmare THAT was. My real talent as an undergrad lay in economics, where I actually found I had considerable talent. Yep, it amazed me a bit too.

[Gracey]

Newt Gingrich.

I'll second that. He is by far, one of the most BRILLIANT thinkers and makes the most SANE and indepth comments of any conservative in the last 10 years.

Why else did the Demoncrats work so hard to get rid of him???

[Torie]

Hewitt is an environmental lawyer, not a professor.

[watsonfellow]

I was a Classics and PPE major...in my senior seminar/tutorial in economics we spent some time on Coase and his analytics....it was very fascinating, especially his emphasis on the need for close to perfect information.

[Torie]

I used to deliver Coase's mail at the law school. No, you don't need perfect information actually. Efficiency is a relative matter. JMO.

[fourscore]

Hewitt is a professor at the Chapman University School of Law. (Orange, CA)

[l33t]

How about the late Alan Bloom. "The Closing of the American Mind" was pretty influential 15 years ago and is still well read.

[cornelis]

Peter Augustine Lawler

[Torie]

Oh, IC. It might be a bit early to call him a great professor.

[watsonfellow]

The post was cut off before I could finish it. Obviously, you don't need perfect information, but my understanding of it was that the closer you get to perfect information (ie in terms of responsibilities and rights, obligations and ownership) then litigation is less likely, and if it occurs, it becomes easier to adjudicate.

[Torie]

Mortimer Adler thought Bloom was a lightweight. I tend to agree from my limited exposure.

[cornelis]

Paul Gottfried

[Torie]

In my experience, litigation can thrive with quite perfect information. The sans culottes can be quite irrational, and that combined with lawyer avarice is more than sufficent to keep the lights in all the courtrooms lite, as well the rooms of a phalanx of private judges.

[watsonfellow]

Are you a lawyer? You went to Chicago I am assuming....after my fellowship, I am doing teach for america for two years and then possibly law school.

I am interested in hearing more about the University of Chicago.

[Terrorista Nada]

Without a doubt William F. Buckley Jr. is the best Conservative, but too acedemic and ugly to ever get elected to anything.

[Torie]

In finance, Eugene Fama reigns supreme. He rather dominates certain aspects of the field.

[tamu]

what dept?? i am at psu too!

[cornelis]

Good grief Torie. I don't suppose that from your limited perspective you bothered to read his bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind?

[Terrorista Nada]

er academic... LOL

[Squire]

Washington & Lee's Jefferson Davis Futch, III. Brilliant.