Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses

[groovedaddy]

COLORADO SPRINGS — Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated, some conservatives have decided to try a new strategy.

They are finding like-minded tenured professors and helping them establish academic beachheads for their ideas.

These initiatives, like the Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions at the University of Texas, Austin, or a project at the University of Colorado here in Colorado Springs, to publish a book of classic texts, are mostly financed by conservative organizations and donors, run by conservative professors. But they have a decidedly nonpartisan and nonideological face.

Their goal is to restore what conservative and other critics see as leading casualties of the campus culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s: the teaching of Western culture and a triumphal interpretation of American history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/education/22conservative.html?th&emc=th

[opihimoimoi]

1. Them Control Freaks should be hunted down and made to eat chicken soup

while in a locked room with Newt and Ernest Angley.....for 6 months

[NJmaverick]

2. "ideas" more like their propaganda and outright lies

[livelongandprosper]

3. Just exactly what is the "triumphal interpretation of American history""

good for? Anyone?

[groovedaddy]

5. As far as I can tell, the neo CONS. It's how they justify hegemony. n.t

[groovedaddy]

4. There was a perfect example in our local paper this morning (not available on-line) penned

by a clearly conservative professor at a small college in s.e. Kentucky. He was going after the paper for being so hard on Bush about the war on terror and not seeing the "bright side" of what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm going to respond with an lte.