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Who are the best conservative academics? (Shameless vanity)
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Posted on 11/01/2001 6:18:22 PM PST by 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....


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To: cornelis
That he is grown so great?

Well, I guess it is nice to have a hero, in an unheroic age. It provides parameters in one's life. I'm still looking myself.

61 posted on 11/01/2001 7:39:35 PM PST by Torie
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To: watsonfellow
Not sure if he's teaching, but Dinesh D'Souza did a great job of exposing PC and Lib policies in his book, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus, 1991, Vintage Books.


Socialists in Congress? Click on the zeppelin, Grasshopper.

62 posted on 11/01/2001 7:39:57 PM PST by EdZep
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To: watsonfellow
I'll mention Harvey Mansfield, since no one else has. And Robert George too. And I'll throw in Alasdair MacIntyre, a former commie who still harbors some dangerous views, but whose repudiation of the "emotive" culture surely earns him a place in the hearts of conservatives.
63 posted on 11/01/2001 7:41:27 PM PST by beckett
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To: watsonfellow
Thomas Sowell.
64 posted on 11/01/2001 7:42:23 PM PST by Faraday
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To: Howlin
Turley is a soft liberal, not a conservative at all.He the type you have drinks with and enjoy his company.
65 posted on 11/01/2001 7:44:57 PM PST by habs4ever
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To: watsonfellow
Oh...and Joseph Epstein, the former editor of The American Scholar, who teaches at Northwestern. He writes like a dream. I thought of him when I saw his nemesis mentioned, Mortimer Adler.
66 posted on 11/01/2001 7:48:24 PM PST by beckett
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To: beckett
Joseph Epstein.
67 posted on 11/01/2001 7:54:04 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie
nice to have a hero

I've posted the names of them above. A few from another age are E. Gilson, E. Voegelin, Frederick Wilhelmsen, Ortega Y Gasset.

68 posted on 11/01/2001 7:55:49 PM PST by cornelis
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To: WxMan2000
can't say as i do :(
69 posted on 11/01/2001 7:58:37 PM PST by tamu
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To: habs4ever
He's conservative. I know somebody who took his classes.
70 posted on 11/01/2001 7:58:59 PM PST by Howlin
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To: watsonfellow
Sowell and Williams are very good at what they do and at reaching a broader audience. Harvey Mansfield and his wife Delba Winthrop might also make the list. Paul Gottfried always has something interesting to say, though he seems obsessed by having been passed over for funding too many times. John Lukacs also has recognition, merits and achievements, though it's highly questionable whether he can be called a conservative, as opposed to merely an old fogy or crank. There are also younger libertarian scholars like Hummel and Higgs and younger Straussians like Ceaser and Pangle who have won acclaim among those who share their point of view as well as many less known scholars hard at work.

There are many skilled and intelligent British conservative academics, from older types like George Watson and Robert Conquest to younger writers like Andrew Roberts, Niall Ferguson and others. The philosopher Roger Scruton is often worth reading as is A.N. Wilson, though he is not an academic, but a novelist who writes widely on other topics for the popular press.

There is much that is admirable in those who go against the prevailing academic currents. Personally, though, I've gotten very disillusioned with academics: either they are playing the careerist advancement game, or they are setting up little straw men to knock down, or they are going off and doing something completely mad like endorsing empire, jihad or secession. But I suppose any movement or idea needs its academic promoters and defenders.

71 posted on 11/01/2001 8:03:57 PM PST by x
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To: beckett
I adore Harvey Mansfield. You beat me to him :)
72 posted on 11/01/2001 8:04:00 PM PST by Lizzy W
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To: Torie
Thx for the link. I haven't read most of those pieces and it will be a pleasure to go through them.
73 posted on 11/01/2001 8:09:09 PM PST by beckett
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To: watsonfellow
On the economic front, Paul Craig Roberts is outstanding, as is Walter Williams.
74 posted on 11/01/2001 8:09:32 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: tamu
They are probably all lurking down at Zeno's...heh...heh.
75 posted on 11/01/2001 8:12:41 PM PST by WxMan2000
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To: watsonfellow
Shameless vanity

I agree.
76 posted on 11/04/2001 5:36:57 AM PST by jjbrouwer
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To: jjbrouwer
"Shameless " ....didn't you invent it?
77 posted on 11/04/2001 8:59:07 PM PST by SunnyUsa
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To: SunnyUsa
Watsonfellow has taken shameless vanity to new levels.
78 posted on 11/04/2001 11:50:33 PM PST by jjbrouwer
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To: 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.

You are correct, one does not need "close to perfect information". One merely needs enough information andmaybe a bit more as insurance. Most decisions are not so difficult that more is needed or required. An top of that, the opportunity cost of obtaining "close to perfect information" can be very high. Besides, how is one ever going to know when they have "perfect information"?

79 posted on 11/05/2001 5:57:03 AM PST by connectthedots
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To: watsonfellow

To all of you who think "Rush" is a good answer, to quote "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Do me a favor . . . and stay off my side."

I would nominate, as a "rising star," Francis Beckwith, who was nearly blackballed at Baylor for publishing an article arguing for the legal legitimacy of teaching ID in public school classrooms as an alternative to Darwinism.

I don't know if either of these men are particularly political creatures, but I take great pleasure in knowing that two of the nation's premier philosophers--John Hare at Yale and Alving Plantinga at ND--are traditional, orthodox, evangelical Christians. Aren't all evangelicals stupid fundy-nut-jobs? :0)

Condie should go on the list.

As a PhD candidate, myself, there is no doubt in my mind that there is a very liberal environment that dominates academia. I have some ideas as to why that is, but that is beyond the scope of this thread . . .


80 posted on 03/18/2007 3:05:01 PM PDT by jjim
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