Thursday, September 17, 2009

Studying Conservative Thought...

Regardless of your ideology, the 108Warren Commission urges you all to read Mark Lilla's piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, he discusses the new UC Berkeley Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements.

The lack of inclusion of conservative views from university and college campuses is a poor trend, and limits the opportunity for true education. The fault lies not just on the Left -- modern Conservatives have embraced an anti-intellectualism that helps to perpetuate the problem...

The Commission (a group with a striking diversity of political thought) is not sure that UC Berkeley is serious about this line of study, but there is hope that just as one note can sometimes suggest a melody, this leads other institutions to open the doors to differing political thought...

It would make a positive change to our democratic institutions as well as our social discourse...

PS, the New York Times take is HERE.