Thanks, TurfMonster. VDH is one of the finest scholars I know, and perhaps the most prescient essayist writing in America. If he returned to teaching, I’d return to graduate school, whatever the subject.
What needs to happen is conservatives (and liberals who still deserve the estimable designation) who want their children to receive a true, comprehensive liberal education in the best sense of the word, should pull their funding and support from dead-end schools filled with phony scholars teaching dubious disciplines and either buy out existing schools or found new ones. Then persuade honorable men like VDH to direct the curricula and run the school the way a great college should be run. More Jeffrey Hart, less bell hooks; Harold Bloom, yes, Cornell West, no; Thomas Sowell always, Fredric Jameson not a chance. You get my drift. There is no education in reading the writings of fashionable twit like Jean Baudrillard or a buffoon like Andrea Dworkin when you could be reading Eric Voegelin or Jane Austin instead.
