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William F. Buckley\u2019s celebrated career was launched when he published God and Man at Yale<\/em>, a critique of the politically liberal secularism that reigned at his alma matter. \u00a0By today\u2019s standards, though, post-War Yale in the 1940s and 1950s was pro-American and downright conservative.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s no question that the American professoriate leans considerably to the left of the American populace that supports it \u2014 and sometimes wildly so. \u00a0 Here\u2019s an example of the kind of unfettered lunacy that goes largely unchallenged in some academic subcultures: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2015\/07\/31\/nutty-professor-rutgers-teacher-who-said-us-worse-than-isis-has-history-bizarre\/?intcmp=hpbt3 \u00a0 William F. Buckley\u2019s celebrated career was launched when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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