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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Ferguson and D'Souza do not belong in the same sentence. Ferguson may be sloppy and lazy in some texts, but he's still respectable. D'Souza is an Anne Coulter. He's dealing in fiction and lurid advocacy.
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This is fundamentally correct - Ferguson indeed has found his conservatism can be a substitute for rigor, and he is exactly what I'm talking about in terms of conservatives who maintain a position in academe because schools want a token conservative, despite his work being of poor quality. If Ferguson were moderate or liberal, he would have struggled to get tenure at a modest midwestern school. Just about every notable school has a Ferguson or two they can point to (other than Dartmouth, which buys them wholesale).
