Conservative academics believed their frustrations with liberal colleagues represented a broader cultural trend. On a call with Leo Strauss, Harry Jaffa claimed Goldwater... 7/pic.twitter.com/diUBlYPBJU
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Conservative academics believed their frustrations with liberal colleagues represented a broader cultural trend. On a call with Leo Strauss, Harry Jaffa claimed Goldwater... 7/pic.twitter.com/diUBlYPBJU
showed in a revolutionary way that “the average American voter had been kicked and cuffed and abused by the Communists abroad, and the liberals at home.” Goldwater became “a symbol for all of us who have just goddamned well had enough.” 8/
Goldwater joined Ohioans For Goldwater and became a speechwriter for the Arizonan Senator after leaving OSU in frustration. 9/
Conservative academics claimed a “liberal ‘power elite’” silenced them and promoted ideologically-motivated scholarship. The “sycophantism is so deeply (and ideologically) rooted,” Jaffa wrote, that the academy “cannot reform itself.” 10/
Supporting Goldwater gave men like Jaffa, Parry, and Niemeyer, an opportunity to enact their frustrations in the political sphere and work, they believed, for the good of the nation. 11/pic.twitter.com/24YPzMqiM7
Hugh Kenner argued college education created a new class of citizens. The liberal controlled college system was the nation’s nervous system determining elite opinion. He blamed Franklin Roosevelt’s “revolution” for plugging “Washington into the Academy.” 12/pic.twitter.com/2NmLgHAZLa
Kenner thought if Goldwater won the “tonality of the entire network” would change. A network of right-wing scholars would be elevated and there would be conservative changes “among the hundreds of minor values with which the network irradiates the land.” 13/
Imagine, Jaffa marveled, “a President whose hot line is to Leo Strauss instead of Khrushchev.” 14/
Goldwater’s defeat ended this possibility. But, the emergence of New Left, angered old-fashioned liberal academics. 15/
Their anger, and their defense of traditional academic mores, proved a point of commonality with movement conservatives helping pave the way for neoconservatism and the very counter-institutions Kenner imagined. 16/16
That Kenner essay was written at last minute because a Russell Kirk piece fell through. It's interesting because of Kenner's sketching out a proto-network-theory (which he got, I think, from McLuhan). @evankindley recent piece in Critical Theory relevant.
Is that the one where he says something like, I'm rubbing shoulders with Jim Burnham, etc
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