Posted on 11/01/2007 9:01:47 AM PDT by Interesting Times
Here’s one of the ways leftists censor opposing views on the Vietnam War.
Not surprising since the Iowa faculty has been left of center since I was there in 69.
More censroship from the left.
BTTT
I’ve seen this again and again. It’s a real puzzle. There are, of course, TWO reasons why Iowa and Duke refused to hire him.
1. He’s a conservative.
2. He’s a better historian than they are.
And what could be more embarrassing than to have a conservative in your department who is better than you are, better than any of the 19 or 29 or 39 other liberals in the department?
I was curious how this came out, and found this capsule bio on the website for his Vietnam book:
Dr. Mark Moyar received a B.A. summa cum laude in history from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University. He holds the Kim T. Adamson Chair of Insurgency and Terrorism at the U.S. Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. His articles have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the National Review, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Post, and the New York Sun. Prior to writing Triumph Forsaken, he published Phoenix and the Birds of Prey, which is being republished in late 2007 in a new edition. Dr. Moyar has taught previously at Cambridge University, Ohio State University, and Texas A&M University.
Thanks for the ping!
Compare Moyar’s credentials with those of those of Ward Churchill who was given a tenured faculty position and made a department head at the University of Colorado. Perhaps Moyar should pose as a Native American.
Patience, friends. What these guys don’t realise, is they are creating a large intellectual movement in young people towards conservatism. Since the young are by nature contrarian, the thing they will contravene is liberalism, and its choke hold on discourse. This essay is great example.
I can be optimistic, can’t I?
1. He’s a conservative.
2. He’s a better historian than they are.
Dr. Moyar is also quite young, which means he'd be around to make the department's resident Marxists look like fools for several decades...
Actually, I think you're right. Kids can spot a buffoon quite readily and you can bet that these buffoons are turning more kids into conservatives than they are into liberals.
Nice 'unintended consequence', I would say.
That's a thought, but to fully emulate Churchill, Dr. Moyar would have to also plagiarize the scholarship and artistic creations of others, which he would no doubt find highly distasteful.
Good point. One young guy who can write like this is more effective than 50 brain-dead leftist campus rabble-rousers.
Par for the course in the USSA, comrade.
Thanks for posting this excellent article.
What happened to Mark Moyar and many others is a travesty of ideological bigotry.
All the rest is yadda, yadda.
Leni
Moyar could just drop the final -r in his name and pass for Hispanic.
Hey, I'm (not) doing my part...
This crap will never end as long as alums keep funding these fascists.
The Duke Chronicle is quoted very favorably in the current book, Until Proven Innocent, about the Duke "rape" case. That book savages the credibility of The New York Times in particular and the MSM in general.And it explicitly makes the case that the Duke faculty is loaded with people like the "Duke 88" professors who rushed to judgement on the Duke 3, and didn't actually care whether the charges were true or not.
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