[lbo-talk] Growing moderatism in academia

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Jul 6 09:16:19 PDT 2008


On Jul 6, 2008, at 12:06 PM, shag wrote:


> At 11:02 AM 7/6/2008, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> On Jul 6, 2008, at 10:44 AM, shag wrote:
>>
>>> seriously, tho, i think carrol is spot on. there is an expectation
>>> that intellectuals are better than, superior to, ordinary people.
>>
>> Who holds such an expectations?
>
>
> joanna: " And my own experience of academics when I was there was
> that for the most part they were the most ordinary of cowards."

Hmm, so n=1? Carrol, who hates generalizations about "The Left," really takes a leap with that one. I don't get why you're going along for the ride.

Doug



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