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**MidwestMadman** · 07-03-2012, 11:31 PM

Academia is not filled with left-wingers. What I find ironic is that you and others alike disdain academia because it's "liberal". This is laughable. Do you happen to know about freshwater economics? Milton Friedman is well regarded among conservatives and libertarians when he was an academic himself. There are tons and tons of conservative academics. George Will, Thomas Sowell come to mind?

I am talking about 'liberalism' in the classical sense, not the way Americans often use the word. What you would call libertarianism, I suppose.

But yes, thank you for proving my point that academia is inherently ideological and that choosing between different alternatives is always a political statement. There is no such thing as a 'neutral', technocratic government.

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MidwestMadman Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 493 Senior Member	Academia is not filled with left-wingers. What I find ironic is that you and others alike disdain academia because it's "liberal". This is laughable. Do you happen to know about freshwater economics? Milton Friedman is well regarded among conservatives and libertarians when he was an academic himself. There are tons and tons of conservative academics. George Will, Thomas Sowell come to mind? I am talking about 'liberalism' in the classical sense, not the way Americans often use the word. What you would call libertarianism, I suppose. But yes, thank you for proving my point that academia is inherently ideological and that choosing between different alternatives is always a political statement. There is no such thing as a 'neutral', technocratic government.
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