A study that the Chronicle of Higher Education reports “is arguably the best-designed survey of American faculty beliefs since the early 1970s” finds (in one of the least surprising findings of modern social science) that conservatives are quite rare in academia.
“Conservatives,” the authors found, “are rarest in the humanities (3.6 percent) and social sciences (4.9 percent)….”
But never fear. The other 96.4% (humanities) and 95.1% (social sciences) are all, no doubt, firm believers in “diversity.”
One finding, however, will surprise many:
Among those who expressed any opinion, only 50.7 percent support affirmative action in college admissions.
So John, those of us who are in academe have a question for ya….
How do Libertarians feel about intellectual property rights? After all, these can’t be enforced with a rifle. They can only be enforced by the government. If somebody had ripped off your idea for whatever it is you did for lawfirm databases, you wouldn’t have ended up on a cushion of a few cool million bux.
So therefore I ask you: what if you, like Dr Carl Djerassi, had invented Enovid. Imagine, John, if you had been as intelligent when you lived in Stanford as Dr Djerassi is NOW, as he lives in Stanford. If you’d invented the birth control pill, or viagra, you’d want some kind of international agreement that your invention not be pirated. Which seems to imply that the libertarian anti-government prejudice is just the feeble whining of people who aren’t clever enough to come up with a copyrightable concept.
Like Ayn Rand did in “The Fountainhead”. And look at what happened when Osama Bin Laden ripped off HER shitty idea.
Gayle – You must have the wrong John. I had no idea for law firm databases (though I did have some ideas about how to use databases for/at law firms), and thus I’m not sitting “on a few cool million bux.” Nor have I ever advocated or even particularly identified with Libertarianism here (though I am sympathetic with some of their positions, as I understand them). For questions about what Libertarians think about this and that, you’ll need to go to a Libertarian site and ask the communicants there.