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June 11, 2014
David Brat's academic website is bordered with portraits of four economists and one theologian: Adam Smith, John Calvin, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek.
Brat, who chairs the economics and business department at Randolph-Macon College, can add a new line to his CV: defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a shocking upset Tuesday night.
But to assume Cantor's seat representing Virginia's 7th District, Brat first has to defeat his Democratic opponentand fellow professor. Jack Trammell, a sociology professor and the director of disability services, has taught at Randolph-Macon Collegea 1,300-student Methodist college outside Richmondfor more than a decade. Four other Randolph-Macon professors have gone on to serve in Congress, including Randy Forbes, who currently represents Virginia's 4th District.
In sociology, education is often championed as the best path to a vibrant societyan idea Trammell clearly subscribes to. He is running on a platform of college access, student-loan forgiveness, and special-education reform. In 2012, Trammell published a book, The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion. (More recently, he has planned to write a vampire novel.) Trammell's ancestor, Thomas Trammell, was an indentured servant when he arrived in Fairfax in 1671.
The Economics Professor Versus the Sociology Professor - NationalJournal.com
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By Emma Roller
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June 11, 2014
David Brat's academic website is bordered with portraits of four economists and one theologian: Adam Smith, John Calvin, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek.
Brat, who chairs the economics and business department at Randolph-Macon College, can add a new line to his CV: defeating House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a shocking upset Tuesday night.
But to assume Cantor's seat representing Virginia's 7th District, Brat first has to defeat his Democratic opponent—and fellow professor. Jack Trammell, a sociology professor and the director of disability services, has taught at Randolph-Macon College—a 1,300-student Methodist college outside Richmond—for more than a decade. Four other Randolph-Macon professors have gone on to serve in Congress, including Randy Forbes, who currently represents Virginia's 4th District.
In sociology, education is often championed as the best path to a vibrant society—an idea Trammell clearly subscribes to. He is running on a platform of college access, student-loan forgiveness, and special-education reform. In 2012, Trammell published a book, The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion. (More recently, he has planned to write a vampire novel.) Trammell's ancestor, Thomas Trammell, was an indentured servant when he arrived in Fairfax in 1671.
The Bible Thumper vs The Humanist
Remains to be seen.
Holy smokes, they've come down to this
ok, How about a supposed Harvard professor Obama (who is not a REAL professor but a guest lecturer really) vs Bozo the clown?
I'll take bozo, because the one from Harvard is as dumb as a box of rocks
Brat only got his teaching job because his Randian sugar-daddy, banker John Allison, volunteered to fund his salary and a lot more by way of a fellowship. That is, the school accepted a bribe to let Brat teach about _Atlas Shrugged_.
Needless to say, this campaign by the objectivists to bribe universities is controversial, and most schools won't bite.
"Universities, the Major Battleground in the Fight for Reason and Capitalism" | AAUP
