Comments on: Blogging Public Intellectuals

By: jen

jen — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

A quick perusal of my blogroll will reveal a bias toward intellectuals â certainly a much higher concentration of PhDs, JDs, professors, Ivy Leaguers, and other big brain types... I'm very amused to note that at the time I'm posting this comment, my blog is at the top of your blogroll. I don't think I qualify in your list of intellectuals there, James. :lol:

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I think in a twisted sort of way maybe I do -- of all the high-credentialed poli-sci professors I had in college, the one I found most intelligent and thought-provoking had only a B.B.A.

No master's in anything. No degree at all in poli sci. But he was the best poli-sci professor that institution had.

And that institution was supposed to be the system's best poli-sci school. Naturally, it was down the rabbit hole in California.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

jen: I'll have to delete you at once, then. ;)

Kev: I'm not sure how he was even hired, to be honest. Most accreditation boards require a minimum of an MA.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

And then, there's me -a cautionary tale for making sure you wear a respirator around solvents.

(Or maybe it's a nod to "diversity" on the blogroll.)

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

James, he was also the token "classical liberal" on the department faculty. At least, at the time I was there. From what he told us in class at various times, though, he apparently had campus cred from when radical profs were targets of investigations.

By: delta dave

delta dave — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

'...the brilliant but often wrong Paul Krugman..."

Can you be brilliant if you are often wrong?

By: Eddie Thomas

Eddie Thomas — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Wonks have a hard time explaining themselves and a hard time explaining why anyone else should be interested.

By: BoiFromTroy

BoiFromTroy — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

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