Ruth Wisse, a professor at Harvard, writes about the values of being conservative, and being one of few who refuse to join the herd mentality of liberals at Harvard.
She was questioned by the Harvard newspaper as to why she was among the few on the faculty who donated to a pot of $8,000 to the Bush campaign this year—while the Kerry crowd donated $150,000.
The University of California system gave more to the Kerry campaign than any other single employee group, and Harvard was second, she writes.
Personally, I greatly enjoy being in the conservative opposition. My colleagues are cordial, and since I’m not looking for promotions I willingly sustain an occasional snub for the greater advantage of being able to speak my mind. Students making the transition from liberal to conservative are often wounded by their first exposure to the contempt that greets their support for the war in Iraq or opposition to abortion or whatever else separates them from the liberal campus. I suggest to them that, as opposed to living in constant terror of offending some received idea, they relish their freedom of expression. The self-acknowledged conservative never experiences intellectual constraint.
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