Joe, to my knowledge, the attack by conservatives on academia started
openly with Nixon's reaction to the anti-Vietman War movement.That, and the
Powell Memo to Nixon warning of the dangers of communism to commerce,
including the Universities as havens for communist thinking.....John

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:07 AM Joseph Michalski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thanks Steve. A powerful, insightful article. Indeed, based on the
> analysis, it's not surprising that Trump could make the following
> statement at his latest rally in West Virginia, with his supporters in the
> background nodding and shouting in agreement with every single point:
>
>
> “Also at stake in this election is Medicare. Republicans want to protect
> Medicare. Democrats want to raid Medicare to pay for their socialism. We’ll
> end up being another Venezuela. That’s not going to happen to us. And Josh,
> Josh will help. Josh will help a lot. That vote means so much. Democrats
> wanna destroy Medicare with so-called “Medicare for all,” robbing our
> seniors of the benefits they paid into for their entire lives. Republicans
> wanna protect Medicare for our great seniors who have earned it and paid
> for it. For many, many years, they’ve been paying for it.”
>
>
> Folks, think about those sentences, quoted verbatim. I'm left almost
> speechless. Perhaps that's the case with the mainstream media too, because
> I've not seen much discussion about that type of statement. Yet additional
> evidence in support of Rauch's thesis.
>
>
> Finally, note the end of the article too about academia's left-leaning
> composition or even dominance. It's not surprising that conservatives have
> been attacking academia at least since the 1980s with a host of books &
> articles, or that a standard characterization of conservatives these days
> is that universities are simply "liberal re-education camps." The epistemic
> challenge will be a difficult one to combat for this and so many other
> reasons in the current era. Best to all, -Joe
>
>
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> *From:* tree of knowledge system discussion <
> [log in to unmask]> on behalf of Steven Quackenbush <
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> *Sent:* Monday, October 1, 2018 6:13 AM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* The Constitution of Knowledge
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> Hi TOK listserv,
>
> An article recently published in National Affairs may be of interest to
> this group:
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nationalaffairs.com_publications_detail_the-2Dconstitution-2Dof-2Dknowledge&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=IicwlJwwDbUY1M7jXRiYeJXmEGQeTjJe9Aj7jdfEBoA&s=gdIY1tnxyDI7PzsP0fU-VeADaLXKLvchnfcI9Mj2Umc&e=
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.nationalaffairs.com_publications_detail_the-2Dconstitution-2Dof-2Dknowledge&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=UWxc8PTZMS37mXV87gbIsPPx7kcnN4-4ESXN_avRbHg&s=z-A3wua96_-dxOJKm2QrGFbT8mhfL6-AnEkKhHjnx7E&e=>
>
> Of special note, the author (Jonathan Rauch) observes,
>
>    - "*America has faced many challenges to its political culture, but
>    this is the first time we have seen a national-level epistemic attack: a
>    systematic attack, emanating from the very highest reaches of power, on our
>    collective ability to distinguish truth from falsehood." *(emphasis
>    added)
>
> ~ Steve Q.
>
>
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