Posted by Sigismund on December 3, 2008, at 15:08:15
In reply to Re: Who is University?, posted by fayeroe on December 3, 2008, at 14:18:28
The problem in Australia is that there just is no right wing intelligentsia.
There is a conservative intelligentsia, all on the left since the demise of the USSR and the advent of the Howard Govt.
And we have people who do culture wars, pointing out the contradictions of the other side; they never have anything to say.
Sometimes they do: Piers Ackerman amused us at one writers festival by saying he prefers to spends time with real people like volunteer firefighters rather than with other journalists.
I laughed and said to one of these 'He does NOT spend time with the volunteer firefighters', and the bloke I said that to replied 'Oh, he's completely shameless'.I heard a tape of William Buckley after his death. I could see why he became influential.
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