Anyone who has read a Free Press article or Ross Douthat column or subscribed to The Economist knows this isn’t true.
Conservative Intellectuals are a dime a dozen. The Ivy League is full of them. The courts are packed with them. Legions of Ben Shapiro wanna-bes goose step across Twitter and Facebook daily.
Reading skills won’t make you progressive if all you’re reading is Rand and Heinlein. Intellectuals wrote The Bell Curve and justified the invasion of Iraq. Education is not ideologically neutral and being “smart” does to turn your vote Blue.
The Causation on this is backwards. Progressives venerate academia. Academics don’t venerate progressivism.
Anyone who has read a Free Press article or Ross Douthat column or subscribed to The Economist knows this isn’t true.
Conservative Intellectuals are a dime a dozen. The Ivy League is full of them. The courts are packed with them. Legions of Ben Shapiro wanna-bes goose step across Twitter and Facebook daily.
Reading skills won’t make you progressive if all you’re reading is Rand and Heinlein. Intellectuals wrote The Bell Curve and justified the invasion of Iraq. Education is not ideologically neutral and being “smart” does to turn your vote Blue.
The Causation on this is backwards. Progressives venerate academia. Academics don’t venerate progressivism.