Monday, September 06, 2010

Rule by the professorate and why that is 'a scary thing indeed'

Professor Victor Davis Hanson on the Academy and why being governed by them is so frightening.  Here are  the money grafs:

We are presently governed by academics. In an era in which university people proliferate in this administration and seem to make things far worse for the rest of us, we need to be reminded why we should not look to the university for answers. What I hear coming out of Washington reminds me a lot of what I once heard coming out of the philosophy or English department. And that is a scary thing indeed.
You see, that tribe is more likely to embody the illness rather than the cure, and this time 300 million are paying the price.

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