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  • Editorial: UC Berkeley wise to research right-wing movements

    03/13/2009 8:05:39 AM PDT · by SmithL · 56 replies · 1,565+ views
    MediaNews via CoCoTimes ^ | 3/13/9 | Editor
    AT A TIME WHEN the nation has turned to the left, one of the more liberal universities in the nation will be studying right-wing movements. Although the timing is odd, investigation of the right is a welcome academic pursuit. Thanks to an anonymous $777,000 donation a Center for the Comparative Study of Right-wing Movements will be established at UC Berkeley. Researchers will analyze right-wing groups in the United States and abroad and compare them. Larry Rosenthal, a sociologist who will oversee the center, is on target in saying that conservative movements have been overlooked in academia, which tends to be...