HA! or david berkowitz.

He's been attacked for speaking his mind, yes.

Well, oddly enough, I don't find that having an understanding of a concept like opportunity cost, or how balance of payments identities work, or what demand elasticities are, turn one into an arch-conservative.

The poor darling. How will he cope?

Pretty fine is my guess. He keeps writing books, giving lectures, and creating handy databases.

http://www.discoverthenetwork.org

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...and being an idiot of the first order.

Hence he appeals to you.

And the circle is complete.

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One wonders whether it's the bias of people going into those programs. On average, they attract the I-want-to-make-money types.

(Actually, there is a part-facetious part-serious research question regarding whether studying economics makes one more selfish, or whether it's an artifact of the self-selection of the student body.)

But in Bush's America, knowing something about economics actually makes it hard to be ultraconservative, if that means going along with the current administration. Ask Paul Krugman, or Brad deLong, or Nouriel Roubini, or Larry Kotlikoff. Even the not-so-lefties like Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok were saying "They're not tax cuts, they're tax shifts", regarding what happens when taxes are lowered in an era of deficits.

The likes of Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiw must envy their colleagues who were CEA chairs under Clinton. Imagine advising a president who not only listens, but comprehends.... motherfucker!!

he's been attacked!? i hope he's doing alright. is he in stable condition?


...ooooh, you mean his points of view were criticized, sometimes unfortunately through ad hominem arguments.

sad to say, but that's often what you get when participating in democracy. people are rarely actually willing to take an issue and discuss it intelligently without resorting to name calling and other sorts of fallacious reasoning.

for example: this thread has turned into debate about horowitz and not about the actual issue of whether there IS a liberal bias in colleges and if so, how it can be fixed.

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Well, I've pointed to links showing the sample of academics form which the "bias" claims were made was itself biased.

I've noted at least anecdotal evidence provided by a leading member of the "conservative academic discipline" of economics who has asked scientists why they don't like Republicans, and posted some of the responses he got, in taxonomic form.

I have, not in this thread but elsewhere, commented that there has been a lamentable tradition in recent decades for humanities departments to become narrowly politicised. Trust me, I've banged on about that enough in various places not to be able to be accused of somehow overlooking that issue. (An issue that led leftist physicist Alan Sokal to satirise the idea of a leftist, "transgressive", physics.)

But that's a disciplinary issue, not a whole-of-university issue. The real reason liberals dominate US universities are because a particularly idiotic brand of conservatism has taken hold of the Republican party, root and branch.

In my country, we have a conservative government, and while there's lots liberals here dislike about them, they are not stark raving moonbats like the current US administration often appears to be. It's easier to be a conservative professor here, simply because you have to spend far less of your time distancing yourself from raving moonbat propositions that you're too embarassed to even try to support.

So here's a proposition regarding how to "fix" the "problem".

Don't elect complete fucking moonbats to high office.

I suppose if it takes physical attacks to validate Horowitz's views, then I should applaud such attacks. But I dont feel that way. I have the extremist opinion he should be able to speak without his enemies disrupting his speeches. If his ideas are so idiotic and stupid on their face, why is Horowitz so vehementely attacked whenever he makes a public appearance? Why is the Left so threatened by what he has to say? He's obviously saying something they dont want the public to hear, and using ever avenue they can to silence him. Alll that does is further my interest in what he has to say, and lends him credibility.

For example, I love the fact Howard Dean is the chairman on the DNC and goes around the country mocking Republicans, calling them evil and liars. It's fantastic. More, please.

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