Monday, November 02, 2009

E-mailbag   [John J. Miller]

A reply to last night's article posting about conservative professors:

I'm an adjunct at a large state university ...  I teach a media law course to communications undergraduates.  I gave them the link to the FIRE website, and now I have students showing up to class on a daily basis wanting to talk about the latest atrocity at XYZ university.  

Last week, a student had a question about the castle doctrine and gun rights, and the discussion that followed was so mature and articulate, I could not have been more proud.  In a scary academic world, there are moments, I promise.  And I'm doing everything I can to at least introduce scholarly concervative thought into the mix.

It's scary to think of the academic environment on the whole.  I'm an attorney for my "day job" and cringe at the thought of trying to make it as a full-time professor.  Practicing law?  No big deal.  Academia?  Now that's cutthroat.

11/02 03:02 PMShare