[lbo-talk] Yale

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Jul 30 17:05:22 PDT 2005


Michael Perelman wrote:


>From the time of Wm. G. Sumner, Yale has been a bulwark of the right
>-- perhaps
>moreso than any ivy league college [Dartmouth never had much
>influence]. Why Yale?

Well, Brown's the hippie/hipster Ivy, and Columbia's in New York, so that rules them out. But the POR was - and still is, I think - pretty marginal at Yale, where the dominant ideology is classic academic liberalism. Princeton always seemed more culturally conservative to me. So I'm not sure you're right about this.

Doug



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