[cornelis]

a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise

That's it.

[Billthedrill]

A Buckley BTT. The real difficulty is that universities, even Ivy League ones, tend to be followers of intellectual fashion rather than leaders. The honest ones will admit it. The arrogant ones will deny it. This percolates down to the undergraduates as an aura of infallibility untrammeled by real-world evidence to the contrary.

Buckley was a gadfly and a pariah for pointing this out in God And Man At Yale, which reads today as if it were published today. I'm not entirely sure it would be published today.

[PGalt]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting.

[Oceander]

Liberalism:



bumper sticker

[FourPeas]

Reading this reminds me how much I miss WFB.

[ccmay]

WFB’s unworthy son rejected the clearest opportunity ever offered to live by his father’s famous aphorism when he denounced Sarah Palin. Wonder how he feels about it now.

[unseen1]

the writer makes a major mistake. He says that progressives are not Marxists. which is wrong. Progressives are Marxists they believe the same things.

He also gets it wrong about Aristocracy.

He wants to seperate the European version of Aristocracy form the USA version (i.e natural Aristocracy)

this is a false argument. Aristocracy is Aristocracy and means a form of government in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule.

The American Aristocrat is no different than the European one. The only difference is the time they have been around. the American Aristocracy is relatively new and the still forming thus they have more ways to obtain it. Give this movement another 100 years to solidify and there will be no difference between the two.

[CarryaBigStick]

Bump for later read.

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