All Them Young Whipper-snappers
By Jim Dallas
The Nation is running a story about the battle for hearts and minds in the academy.
The article meshes with a lot of what I've been reading about the rise of movement conservatism (especially Rick Perlstein's excellent Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, which, alas, I have still not finished reading). The palpable impact of William F. Buckley, et. alia, in starting campus conservative publications and an entire infrastructure to support them is a development which, although perhaps easy to overemphasize, nonetheless is a recurring idea put forth by journalists and historians.
(Also, my gut instinct tells me that the Contumacy gang is trying to sap and impurify all of our bodily fluids.)
Clearly, getting students exposed to our message, as well as motivated to participate in left-liberal politics, is an on-going priority, no matter how "left wing" the academy supposedly is.
Question: Is there a progressive alumni association? There ought to be. Money being the lifeblood of politics and all...
Oh, and I'll be expecting annual fundraising solicitations from the UDs as soon as I get a real job.
Posted by Jim Dallas at January 27, 2005 02:20 AM
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