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1. You responded to none of the points raised in my post.
In fact, "one of the solutions for conservatives is that more become historians" ignores the exact point raised.
2. "I also accept the premise that we had spies in the USSR, I also think our spies were, and are, better, if getting caught is a criteria."
Diaphanous excuse.
In fact, I will construct an OP showing that quite the opposite is true.
Thanks for the idea.
Perhaps universities do not hire as many conservatives as liberals because of the mission of the university? There are a number of conservative universities with conservative faculties, and conservative messages, but it seems their conservative message has to be coupled with religion. Then again, maybe the conservative message does not stand up to academic study. In fact, some of the major universities of today began as religious schools, they might have dropped the religion and kept the conservatism, but did not, why?
I can see where conservatives believe it is the faculties responsible for liberal schools but I believe liberalism has its own call to students, the very sort of the thing that caused Galileo to be placed under house arrest.
"...universities do not hire as many conservatives as liberals because of the mission of the university?"
This can be seen in Woodrow Wilsons speech as president of Princeton: Our problem is not merely to help students to adjust to themselves to world life [but] to make them as unlike their fathers as we can. (Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920, p. 111
Same from Obama:
"U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."
Obama To Grads: Reject Voices That Warn About Government Tyranny | RealClearPolitics
Get it?
Make them unlike the men who made this country great.
Progressives. Disgusting.
Where is the Obama quote that says make them unlike the men who...?