[lbo-talk] Yale/Tigertown

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 30 17:26:15 PDT 2005


Tigertown is culturally conservative but has a CIA liberal self-image -- the Woodrow Wilson school (and heritage), "Princeton In The Nation's Service," that ssort of crap.

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 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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