Commentary: When politicians claim professors like me are the enemy, what are they really attacking?
by Benjamin Carter Hett, Los Angeles Times
Nov 10, 2021
3 minutes
On Nov. 2, J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling “Hillbilly Elegy” and now candidate for the U.S. Senate from Ohio, gave a keynote speech at the National Conservatism Conference titled “The Universities Are the Enemy.”
In the speech, he told his audience: “I think in this movement of national conservatism, what we need more than inspiration is wisdom. And there is a wisdom in what Richard Nixon said approximately 40, 50 years ago. He said, and I quote: ‘The professors are
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