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"If the ills of modernity are intensifying, conservatives know why. They rarely mention hyperconsumerism or advertising or a rigidifying class structure—the byproducts of advanced capitalism. Rather, they dwell on the presumably corrosive ideas of the educated, especially the professoriate."
Ah, if there were any doubt check out the Texas Republican Party Platform--one of the planks of which is the opposition to critical thinking skills, because they teach students to "challenge fixed beliefs".
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On a side note, its really sad that people like this can hold tenured positions at elite universities, when there are lots of people out there who care about nothing more than academia who would kill for a job like this. Ideology is blinding, apparently, even for people for whom facts are supposed to be the central tenet of their existence.
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