Clearly Harvard hires very smart people to be their professors

[RAB910]

[SouthernDem4ever]

1. This needs to be on billboards everywhere

Something has to get thru to the thick skulled knuckle draggers.

[John1956PA]

2. Say it, Doctor Levitsky!

So well stated.

[MiHale]

3. KnR...We are being warned clearly and repeatedly.

[KarenS]

5. Yes, we are. n/t

[2naSalit]

18. +1

[Duncan Grant]

23. To believe otherwise is to live in denial.

They intend to rule society, not govern. This sounds like alarmist sloganeering - but it’s not. If one looks into conservative thought leaders (contemporary right-wing philosophers), their goals are abundantly clear. They talk a lot about restoring the “common good”, and — without shame —openly discuss how the ends will justify the means. This explains why today’s republicans are entrenched in ideology and *not* democracy.

This post isn’t directed at MiHale but rather to anyone reading this thread. I recommend these two recent links:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/antiliberal-revolution

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/07/28/patrick-deneen-regime-change-sohrab-ahmari-tyranny-inc-review/

Edit: A search of Adrian Vermeule will provide a good intro to all this, too. (Scrutinize your sources…)

[Alexander Of Assyria]

27. Corporate media has no idea what this learned man in politics is talking about!

On with the horse race, giddy up you lame Republican nag, there’s ad profit galore at the finish line!

[Wonder Why]

4. Well, at least one intelligent professor.

[Duppers]

16. Oh come on...

There are some college profs & teachers here on DU.

[Wonder Why]

20. The thread is about HARVARD professors, not generic professors and teachers.

How many others have spoken out?

[ShazzieB]

26. I don't know, and I doubt that you do, either.

Since you're the one who is making pronouncements about Harvard professors, apropos of nothing, I think it's on you to prove them. You could start by looking up the faculty roster for Harvard and googling them all. Once you report your findings to DU, we can have a discussion based on facts rather than baseless assumptions.

J/K, but honestly, you are on pretty shaky ground implying that Harvard professors are not very smart, Trump humpers, or whatever you were hinting at (which isn't entirely clear, and I'm not comfortable making assumptions) .

[pnwmom]

28. Alan Dershowitz is an Emeritus Harvard Professor, and he's nuts. nt

[Wonder Why]

30. So all we know is that of two Harvard professors, in this two prof race,

Dershowitz comes in first in the "Nuttiest" competition

and Livitsky comes in next to last in the Intelligence competition.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

38. Big woo

Lots of people have emeritus status, including idiots. It's like an honorary PhD, nice to have, but ultimately meaningless.

Harvard also has a guy named Stephen Breyer on actual staff. Ever hear of him? Are you going to say that he's nuts or an idiot, too?

Look, I spent many years either working admin for professors, or spending time with them socially because my stepfather was a professor (and a Harvard-educated one, at that). That's why I know for a fact that every single university department has at least one idiot on their payroll. Some departments have more idiots than others (business, especially), but not a single one of them is bereft of such a creature.

[pnwmom]

39. The OP made a broad general claim which is disproven by a single counter example.

But I'm sure there are others, because there are bound to be some other Trump fans there.

[Polybius]

40. Nuts, but not stupid

He's smart, unlike Orange man.

[pnwmom]

41. His logic lately leaves a lot to be desired. nt

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

37. If you'd bother to go to their faculty web page

You'd learn that they have a great number of intelligent and incredible professors...Including a liberal Supreme Court justice named Stephen Breyer. You may have heard of him.

They have an impressive roster, for those who know how to understand what that entails.

[TeamProg]

6. K&R Thanks for posting. n/t

[wolfie001]

7. Great Post!!!

Thank you!!!

[Hortensis]

8. Yup. The GOP is a FAR-RIGHT authoritarian party by consensus of experts

internationally who study political parties. Right down there with Hungary's Fidesz that serves dictator Viktor Orban.

VERY popular with tRump's followers who want an Orban and fallen democracy of their own.

"Come back, Mr. President, make America great again, and bring us peace!” Orban to CPAC audience after claiming the Western world is "under attack from a virus developed in progressive liberal laboratories." But authoritarianism is the antidote. (He passed on calling it a vaccine to this crowd. )

[Upthevibe]

9. Kick. N/T

[llashram]

10. yep

[Irish_Dem]

11. Keep in mind many MAGAS are fine with an authoritarian govt.

And stealing elections. They are a minority group which feels entitled, superior and victimized to justify their ruthless control over groups the demonize.

They believe that the rules will protect them and punish everyone else.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. The smear campaign against such blasphemy (NOT) is going to be brutal.

[Alice Kramden]

13. K&R n/t

[BOSSHOG]

14. The gops audience is so easy to deceive

THEY are the Patriots. THEY are the lovers of freedom. THEY are the constitutional scholars. THEY are the hard working god loving Americans. That’s what THEY have been groomed to know. With a healthy assist from the Russians. So THEY cash their Socialist Social Security check and send a hunk to their own freedom loving hitler. Are the good people of America giving penance for some unknown reason?

[RAB910]

15. The propaganda machine convinces them they are the victims when in reality they are the villians

[Hotler]

17. If you don't own a firearm I'd get one. If they get an opening they will come for us.

Might as well take out a few of them as they kick in the our doors.
https://theliberalgunclub.com/

[orangecrush]

22. Yes and no

Good to own a firearm if you have the proper background and get training, if you are untrained.

Bad to buy a firearm with the preconceived idea of using it to kill anyone, especially members of any specified group of people.

I sympathize with your feelings, but de-escalation of the possibility of any armed confrontation should be priority.

[Yavin4]

19. I hate to disagree with the professor here but...

The Republican party as a political organization does not exist. It has become captive of the Republican donor class who panders to the worst, most fringe elements of the American political spectrum in order to appear as though it has popular support.

It's the Republican donor class, the party per se that's driving the bus.

[FakeNoose]

35. It's also American media who leech off the Repuke donor class

The media leeches are just as evil as the ultra-wealthy ultra-conservatives.

[orangecrush]

21. MEGAKICK

[Quanto Magnus]

24. and yet most of the media

treats them with kid gloves, does massive contortions to 'both sides' what's going on and mostly ignoring people like this professor.

[Skittles]

25. TRUTH

YES INDEED

repukes cannot win with their shitty platform so they hijack democracy - for example, infesting the Supreme Court with hacks

[dalton99a]

29. Kick

[Sneederbunk]

31. GOP response: Hire dumber professors.

[SWBTATTReg]

32. Ha ha heh...IMHO, isn't this what the GOP is doing in some southern states, by driving away their

competent teachers (not all of them) but putting forth an agenda to to be taught that is so biased, e.g., FL, etc.

[Blue Owl]

33. K&R

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

34. To take liberties with the work of a Harvard prof...

... (And remember this couplet rhymes)...

These are the only warnings from the Profs who teach at Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.

Tom Lehrer, The Elements Song.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

36. Actually, they do

This post had me going through some of the bios of their faculty, and they do have some impressive hires.

Not all of them, of course, but some of them have incredible CVs.

[calimary]

42. And that detestable excuse for a political party has to be left in ruins.

There has to be a teachable moment to come out of this.

[Old Crow]

43. I agree with his statement 100%.

Truth, spoken plainly.

[betsuni]

44. No. Cornel West.