The truth is, some people (academics) have the desire/gift to research and teach. What is so wrong about that?
I consider myself to be a conservative on some things, libertarian on others and I am a lecturer at a university. There are some good non-lib profs out there, so don’t broad brush.
One last thing: I’m tired of reading “Those who can do, those who can’t teach” and the other backwoods sentiment on here. It is because of this sentiment we lost in ‘06 and ‘08- we’re resorting to slogans like “they can’t hack it in the real world hurhurhur” and NOT embracing conservative/libertarian intellectual traditions. Maybe if we didn’t mock higher education and the geist around it, things would have worked out differently in ‘06 and ‘08.
That’s all.
Thank you for your service!