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....

[Terrorista Nada]

My all time favorite Conservative professor is John R. Parrish, Professor Emeritus of Economics, U. of Illinois, College of Commerce, U-C

[Torie]

Chicago for undergrad and business school, and then to U of Michigan for law school. Btw, the most conservative professor at U of M was gay, and died of AIDS. He once said in his class on the Uniform Commerical Code that the law school had just met all its quotas by hiring one professor: the hiree was female, black, and Republican. He bet against a tax professor (Hart Wright, a wonderful guy but a hard core Dem) that Ford would beat Carter. When Carter won, he wrote a check to pay off the gambling debt, noting on it that it was recompense for an illegal transaction against public policy. Wright the next day in class bellowed his rage at the sharp practices indulged in by his colleage. Wright liked me though (he singled me out in class to take a bow) when I trashed in a public forum (quite successfully I think) Charls Walker (undersecretary of the treasury at the time), for his supply side economics snake oil. Wright was amazed when he found out that I was voting for Ford. It was all quite fun.

[Torie]

I did. I disliked it. Sorry. The sex chapter blasting away at The Bolero during student climaxes was all too much, although amusing, as was his obsession with The Republic.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Rush

[woofie]

David Horowitz...

[cornelis]

You may dislike it. I would have no argument with that. But you only get so far by debunking it with dislike. It leaves too many questions unanswered, and that is contributes to the very academic problem Bloom addressed.

[Torie]

Another time. If we get more "involved" with each other around here, maybe I will reread it (it has been awhile), and post my review. Cheers.

[Eternal_Bear]

These two guys are dead and eminently British, but Charles Oman and William Fortescue were the best Military Historians of all time. Both were prolific writers in the early decades of the 20th century. No one like them has since appeared. Both were conservatives who stressed the importance of a strong military and both were very un PC even for their times because of that.

[Axolotl]

Me...U.Va.

[WxMan2000]

Meteorology...hence "wxman"...short for weatherman. What about you?

[cornelis]

By all means, don't reread it! Just advice about polemics here: know more than your opponent, and when it comes to academics, loquaciousness is tripe. Cheers.

Now what shall we talk about, the California coast?

[watsonfellow]

Maybe we should start another posting....Free Republic University (or liberal arts college) and ask, who should staff it?

[Torie]

You are a haughty chap. Your problem is relative youth I suspect. When you reach the glorious age of 50, you might perceive more of the greys. Don't take it personally. When I was 30, I was insufferable too.

[tamu]

wow! psu has a top met. dept in the nation, congrats on your appointment.
i'm a grad student in the finance dept. psu is
second tier in that area (and thanks to our new and insane dean
we shall remain that way) :(

[Un-PC]

Thomas Sowell

Milton Friedman

Alan Keyes

[Anamensis]

Thanks for the link! McWhorter rocks.

[WxMan2000]

Thanks. You know of any other Freepers on campus?

[cornelis]

You are a haughty chap

Cornelis:
The fault, dear Torie, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Torie, and Bloom. What should be in that Bloom?
Why should that name be sounded more than yours?
Write them together, yours is as fair a name.
Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well.
Weigh them, it is as heavy, Conjure with 'em,
Torie will start a spirit as soon as Bloom.
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth this our Bloom feed
That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!

[untenured]

I like John R. Lott Jr. and Eugene Volokh (law professor, UCLA) because they are so good at, in calm, measured tones, systematically debunking the theology of the left.

[FReethesheeples]

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