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Friday, March 31, 2006
George Mason Still Sucks
Okay guys, just because George Mason University hires some right-wing zealots and wins some basketball games, it doesn't mean that the school is any good. I'm seeing a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal doing everything possible to promote this mediocre school because it suits the Journal's wacked political opinions.
Check this out--a search for "George Mason University" on the Wall Street Journal produces five results just for today! 03/31/06 Okay, GMU professor Vernon Smith did get a Nobel for Economics (FWIW, there is really no such thing as a Nobel in economics). But remember, this is the school that:
I'm sorry, but even with the greatest basketball players, that is not a track record of excellence. |
10 Comments:
There is no question, it is the school for academic hackery. It makes me feel bad for the poor kids that get tricked into going there thinking it is a real school
12:12 PM, March 31, 2006
The term you're looking for is "classical liberal." And there are two Nobel laureates, as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner. It's easy to smear with ignorance by picking two events and disgarding the rest.
1:12 AM, April 03, 2006
Sorry, your school is still a joke.
1:40 PM, April 03, 2006
"Classical liberal" = "Republican who wants to sound well-read"
3:44 PM, April 03, 2006
If you think its academics are hacks, why not show something they did that was hackery, instead of making ad hominem attacks? Or is that too complicated for your simplistic worldview?
Also, anyone who believes that classical liberalism has anything to do with the modern GOP has obviously never read any classical liberal scholarship by people like Mill, Green, or Smith.
1:35 PM, April 04, 2006
Well Buck, someone has asked you to demonstrate proof of the George Mason hackery.
This is one of those questions that if they knew better, they wouldn't ask. But if you have time, please, Buck, unleash the fury. I've seen you do it myself, but I haven't had the extensive experience you have had with them to write the truly eloquent post that is necessary.
12:23 AM, April 05, 2006
If you don't know enough to know that the Wall Street Journal's news pages lean liberal, and it's only the editorial page that leans conservative, and that almost all the stories you point to are from the liberal news pages, you shouldn't be blogging about it.
9:00 PM, April 05, 2006
Well, this is hard to do without revealing some personal experiences that shouldn't be blogged about. But let me tell you about one that involves two dead people.
So I go to a hearing at the DC federal district court, where credit reporting agencies are challenging a regulation under First Amendment grounds. Specifically, the company is arguing that it has a free speech right to sell Social Security numbers.
So the guy making the argument bungles it. I turn to a lobbyist I know from the data industry (now dead), and I ask, "who's that lawyer?" And he responds, saying that it is a constitutional law scholar named Gellhorn (died last year). You see, I basically know all the constitutional scholars who work in this field, so I asked where he taught. And he said at GMU. I said, isn't that a commuter school?
Anyway, this was hackery. It's an extremist interpretation of the FA that almost no one in the academy follows (except libertarians). If followed, all of consumer protection law would collapse, including pure food and drug laws.
And this was just one of many experiences I've had where a big industry brings in a GMU professor to represent their financial interests. You're going to have to take my word for it. And read some articles about Mercatus.
10:28 AM, April 09, 2006
Wow, obviously you don't "research" about Mason's academics. Besides the obvious high-profiled professors. Did you know that many do correspondence on CNN and FoxNews? Did you know that the law school is ranked 37th in the nation? Did you know that it has a top-notch IT field? Give me a break, calling George Mason a "hackery" is an obvious bias towards some sort of vendetta with the University.
10:47 PM, July 24, 2006
The beauty of GMU is that, in many ways, its one of the most free-thinking institutions around. Because it is young, it has the freedom to be a little unconventional. Of course some experimentation doesn't pan out, but its approach is certainly preferable to producing graduates who are run-of-the mill conformists. What you call "hackery" is more likely a cutting edge scholarship that is derided primarily because it is not mainstream. No doubt many established schools that have a higher opinion of themselves than they probably deserve find this threatening.
11:48 PM, August 01, 2006
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