Upside of Horowitz Ad

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Before Horowitz placed his ads, the reparations discussion was 
>pretty much limited to the "usual suspects." At least Horowitz has 
>gotten the subject covered in the New York Times and the Washington 
>Post, although I'm not sure progressives were as prepared to take 
>advantage of this opportunity as Horowitz obviously was. (For one 
>thing, he is an experienced hustler up against a bunch of naive 
>student journalists. He picks his opponents well.)
>
>-- Jim Cullen

The Right, for all their sneering at "the cultural elite" (which is 
mainly for public consumption), take higher education -- at least as 
a battlefield in a Gramscian war of ideological positions + 
government expenditure -- far more seriously than the Left do in the 
USA.  _Guide to Uncovering the Right on Campus_, eds. Dalya Massachi 
& Rich Cowan, is a helpful countermove by the Left.  Naturally, we 
don't have the same financial resources as the Right, but we have 
enough manpower to make some change (if not a great deal of change). 
We need, however, a change in attitude toward ideological work.

Yoshie