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CLIVE CROOK: Why Intellectuals Are Not Conservatives: ?Paul Krugman wearily observes that stories ?

By Glenn Reynolds

CLIVE CROOK: Why Intellectuals Are Not Conservatives: “Paul Krugman wearily observes that stories about liberal bias in the academy surface on a regular basis. They do, but that does not make them untrue. He’s right, too, that ideological discrimination is not the same thing as racial discrimination. But that does not make it a good thing, does it?”

Crook quotes Nozick: “Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).