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Re: icymi above
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
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).
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Ferguson was a full professor at Harvard, and gave that up to join the Hoover Institute, which has a patina of scholarship because of its affiliation with Stanford but is *not* the same thing at all -- it's essentially a conservative-funded think tank. Ferguson did some serious work, and then he abandoned it to do what he's doing now.
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