At risk of being part of the small set (but perhaps larger than you think) that is the overlap of UD readers and tea party sympathizer, I would not assume deficit-driving university football teams are popular with the “tea-party-type” voters. “Big College Football” suffers the same core contradictions as “Big Government” and other rent-seeking “Big” constituents.
Chris Lawrence or Mike Munger or Glenn Reynolds might think otherwise. The libertarian side of the Tea Party coalition is sometimes at odds with the End Times part.
I don’t know about anybody else but I come here mostly for the football coverage and the scandals.
UD, aren’t you supposed to be an English professor? Didn’t you ever hear of Derrida or Foucault or Friere or feminist theorists? What do they say about knowledge? So before going after the Tea Party maybe the left ought to clean out the skeletons in their own closets. When it comes to anti-intellectualism, you’re going to have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat Leftist academics.
Actually universities aren’t very popular at this site either. I seem to remember seeing something about your goal being to change things.
If the Tea Party isn’t enamored with universities it’s for a good reason. Universities charge grandiose sums so that grad students or undergrads teach courses, while some big academic name gets a huge salary for writing about how oppressed she is by the patriarchy. At the same time universities don’t believe they can ever have enough diversity administrators, or that they can ever think of not treating male students as potential rapists, or do without their speech codes. And then heaven forbid they should ever hire a conservative. And at the end if a student doesn’t major in science or a technical field, he’ll come out deeply in debt knowing little more than when he came in.
Maybe you and the Tea Party disagree on the details, but you ought to be pretty much on the same page with them when it comes to criticizing universities.
October 17th, 2013 at 7:57AM
At risk of being part of the small set (but perhaps larger than you think) that is the overlap of UD readers and tea party sympathizer, I would not assume deficit-driving university football teams are popular with the “tea-party-type” voters. “Big College Football” suffers the same core contradictions as “Big Government” and other rent-seeking “Big” constituents.
Keep shining the flashlight on these rodents!
October 17th, 2013 at 8:36AM
m a: Thanks for the comment. I’m sure I’ve got Tea Party readers – and I’m flattered that they read me.
And you might be right that there’s actually NO aspect of universities that Tea Partiers have any time for.
October 17th, 2013 at 12:04PM
Chris Lawrence or Mike Munger or Glenn Reynolds might think otherwise. The libertarian side of the Tea Party coalition is sometimes at odds with the End Times part.
October 17th, 2013 at 8:38PM
So advocating fiscal responsibility is equated with being anti-intellectual? Pathetic.
Buffoonery spouting tripe. If that qualifies as “words of wisdom” at GWU law school, those students are seriously screwed.
October 17th, 2013 at 8:44PM
MikeM: So universities ARE popular with the Tea Party?
October 18th, 2013 at 2:13AM
I don’t know about anybody else but I come here mostly for the football coverage and the scandals.
UD, aren’t you supposed to be an English professor? Didn’t you ever hear of Derrida or Foucault or Friere or feminist theorists? What do they say about knowledge? So before going after the Tea Party maybe the left ought to clean out the skeletons in their own closets. When it comes to anti-intellectualism, you’re going to have to get up pretty early in the morning to beat Leftist academics.
Actually universities aren’t very popular at this site either. I seem to remember seeing something about your goal being to change things.
If the Tea Party isn’t enamored with universities it’s for a good reason. Universities charge grandiose sums so that grad students or undergrads teach courses, while some big academic name gets a huge salary for writing about how oppressed she is by the patriarchy. At the same time universities don’t believe they can ever have enough diversity administrators, or that they can ever think of not treating male students as potential rapists, or do without their speech codes. And then heaven forbid they should ever hire a conservative. And at the end if a student doesn’t major in science or a technical field, he’ll come out deeply in debt knowing little more than when he came in.
Maybe you and the Tea Party disagree on the details, but you ought to be pretty much on the same page with them when it comes to criticizing universities.