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By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:04:15 +0000

Relativist notions of truth are the left’s response to intolerable realities that they could not refute.

When presented with unpleasant truths, they responded by denying the existence of truth itself.

Those who do this are truly lost.

By: Isabel Archer

Isabel Archer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:01:59 +0000

Not a Yalie, though I am a recent alum (’04) of one of its rivals, and I was taken aback by Rabbi Hausman’s statement that he would never send his child there. From everything that I’ve been able to discern about Yale in particular, there’s a thriving conservative and libertarian intellectual subculture. Katherine Mangu-Ward of Reason magazine is a fairly recent Yale grad; Helen Rittelmeyer of the Cigarette Smoking blog and Nicola Karras have gotten link love from high places; and Dara Lind is a recent Yale grad whose stuff I’ve seen at the highbrow blog American Scene. See also this piece profiling four hotshot young Bush speechwriters —
http://americasfuture.org/doublethink/2008/02/dcs-kid-speechwriters/ — three of whom are Yale grads.

I’m not denying that Yale and schools like it lean left far more than right. I’m also not denying that more intellectual and ideological balance would be good for these places. The point is that there are plenty of talented conservatives and libertarians who make it through the ideological hazing and come out stronger and more interesting because of it. I’d encourage Rabbi Hausman’s children, and applicants like them, not to flee these institutions so quickly.

By: Cristina

Cristina — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:49:32 +0000

Sorry for the lost part of my post at # 51.

Did you show up at Westergaard’s lecture to prove Yale was “diverse,” not in line with a number of “hotheads” and “idiots”?
Your University Press aligned itself with the “idiots,” didn’t it? That makes Yale University Press and every alumnus sponsoring censorship of the Mo cartoons idiots of the highest order, doesn’t it?
On the scale of idiocy–1 to 10–where do you place the at-large Yale community, including yourself?

By: Cristina

Cristina — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:24:58 +0000

7. Yale ’80:

“I would be careful to condemn a vibrant and multi-faceted community and institution numbering in the thousands and thousands soley because a number of hotheads, idiots or whatever among a group of only 65 demonstrated the way they did. Yale is not perfect but it is more diverse than you give it credit it for.”

Thank God and the Rabbi and Roger for not being “careful.” That “vibrant” and “multi-faceted community” (three obnoxious cliches of PC lingo in one sentence! Wow! It just goes to show how multifaceted your “community” really is; it doesn’t seem to involve creative, original language and argument) never bothered to prove its “diversity” and “multi-facetedness” at the meeting with Hasengaard. It wasn’t worth your time. You were being “careful,”, mindful of your position in the academia, that’s all. Spare me the diversity plea.
You only manage to prove Rabbi’s and Roger’s points.
Did you show up at the meetim