Why are America's best universities liberal? (Condi Rice, ethical, Reaganomics, statistics)

[azriverfan.]

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Berkley, Duke etc. why are America's best universities bastions of liberalism? Why is that America's most conservative universities are not academically recognized at the same level as the aforementioned universities. Oral Roberts, Liberty College and other right wing colleges are not given the same consideration. They boast much lower admission statistics in addition to job placement statistics. Why is that conservative colleges are considerably less stellar academically than liberal universities?Also why do leading Conservative commentators like Beck, Hannity and Rush lack college degrees? How do conservatives defend this?

[odinloki1]

This is kind of a pointless thread. It doesn't matter if liberals are smarter. If they can't get their point down to a 5 word catch phrase, and put it on a pretty face, they can't get elected and we're stuck with conservatives.

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by odinloki1

This is kind of a pointless thread. It doesn't matter if liberals are smarter. If they can't get their point down to a 5 word catch phrase, and put it on a pretty face, they can't get elected and we're stuck with conservatives.

I'm a Republican and a centrist-right. I don't consider myself liberal but I agree with many of it's principles and hardly see it as a ill-thought concept. I just want to know how other conservatives see this issue.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Berkley, Duke etc. why are America's best universities bastions of liberalism? Why is that America's most conservative universities are not academically recognized at the same level as the aforementioned universities. Oral Roberts, Liberty College and other right wing colleges are not given the same consideration. They boast much lower admission statistics in addition to job placement statistics. Why is that conservative colleges are considerably less stellar academically than liberal universities?Also why do leading Conservative commentators like Beck, Hannity and Rush lack college degrees? How do conservatives defend this?

What's to defend? A college degree does not make one uniquely qualified to comment on the issues of our time.

Some of your choices as "liberal" schools don't neatly fit the mold. Is Duke really that liberal? Ever hear of the Hoover Institution at Stanford which counts Condi Rice, Shelby Steele and Thomas Sowell among its fellows? And University of Chicago is home to the economics school that provided (and still does provide) the main intellectual firepower behind Reaganomics.

[azriverfan.]

Originally Posted by Drover

What's to defend? A college degree does not make one uniquely qualified to comment on the issues of our time.

You don't have to be educated to comment on issues that define our society? Oh but let me guess, they just spent a lot of time reading books in the library instead. They were "self educated" Love that one

[KoT]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

You don't have to be educated to comment on issues that define our society? Oh but let me guess, they just spent a lot of time reading books in the library instead. They were "self educated"

No, you don't have to be educated to comment on issues that define our society. Freedom of speech... A higher education obviously helps however, but it is not a prerequisite for expressing one's self.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

You don't have to be educated to comment on issues that define our society? Oh but let me guess, they just spent a lot of time reading books in the library instead. They were "self educated" Love that one

Some people are capable of exercising their powers of observation without formal education. My suspicion is that most people who can't possibly conceive of such a thing are probably formally "educated."

[ManGoneADreamin]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

why are America's best universities bastions of liberalism?

"LIBERALISM-
a movement in modern Protestantism emphasizing intellectual liberty and the spiritual and ethical content of Christianity b : a theory in economics emphasizing individual freedom from restraint and usually based on free competition, the self-regulating market, and the gold standard c : a political philosophy based on belief in progress, the essential goodness of the human race, and the autonomy of the individual and standing for the protection of political and civil liberties;..."
liberalism - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by azriverfan.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Berkley, Duke etc. why are America's best universities bastions of liberalism? Why is that America's most conservative universities are not academically recognized at the same level as the aforementioned universities. Oral Roberts, Liberty College and other right wing colleges are not given the same consideration. They boast much lower admission statistics in addition to job placement statistics. Why is that conservative colleges are considerably less stellar academically than liberal universities?Also why do leading Conservative commentators like Beck, Hannity and Rush lack college degrees? How do conservatives defend this?

The Heritage Foundation - Policy Experts

Alt graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 2002

A graduate of Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., Beach also holds a master's degree in history and economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

In 2002, Book earned a doctorate in economics and an MBA from the University of Chicago

He was also a Lecturer in History, and, from 2004, a Lecturer in International Affairs, with responsibility for designing, administering, and teaching the core security studies curriculum in Yale's International Relations MA program.

Brookes is currently a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University . He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (bachelor's degree in engineering); the Defense Language Institute (diploma in Russian); the Naval War College (diploma); and the Johns Hopkins University (master's degree in government). He has studied German and Polish.

In 2002, he was asked to spend a semester at Harvard University as a Fellow at the Institute of Politics. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Graduate School.

She also earned a 2004 master's degree in economics from Temple and a 2000 bachelor's degree in accounting from Houghton College in New York .

A graduate of West Point, Carafano also has a master's degree and a doctorate from Georgetown University and a master's degree in strategy from the U.S. Army War College.

She received her MBA from the Harvard Business School and bachelor's degree in economics from Mount Holyoke College. She is the recipient of 31 honorary doctoral degrees. She is married to the United States Senate Republican Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

He earned his doctorate at the Fletcher School of Law

Curtis was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., and earned a bachelor's degree in economics at Indiana University in 1990.

D'Angelo is currently working toward his master's degree in applied economics, with a specialty in health economics, at the Johns Hopkins University. In 2005, he received his bachelor's degree in political science and public policy from Duke University.

Dale earned a diploma of English studies in Oxford, England, graduated with a master's degree in English and American studies
from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and pursued graduate work in American studies at Tufts University, Boston.

He received his law degree in 1996 from New England School of Law in Boston.

She holds a master's degree in international management from the University of Maryland and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.

A native of Louisville, Ky., Donovan grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in English at the University of Notre Dame.

Dubay received his master's degree in economics from the University of Connecticut in 2004. He also has a bachelor's degree in economics and leadership studies from the University of Richmond.

Dunlop is a graduate of Miami University in Ohio.

Eaglen received her master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University in 2001. She graduated from Mercer University, in Macon, Ga., with a bachelor's degree in international affairs while serving in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps.

Edwards holds a bachelor's degree in English from Duke University and a doctorate in world politics from Catholic University. He also did graduate work at the Sorbonne in Paris.

He graduated Regis with a bachelor's degree in English, and received an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 1964. He later attended Georgetown University and the London School of Economics, and then earned a doctorate degree at the University of Edinburgh.

Foster received his doctorate in economics from Georgetown University, his master's degree in economics from Brown University, and bachelor's degrees in economics and mathematics from the University of Colorado.

That's only about 1/3 of them....

[texdav]

Maybe it has to do with the old saying that goes something like those that can do and others teach.