"God and Man at Yale" and beyond: The Thoughts of William F. Buckley, Jr. on Higher Education, 1949-1955

Autor/in	Green, James
Titel	"God and Man at Yale" and beyond: The Thoughts of William F. Buckley, Jr. on Higher Education, 1949-1955
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 39 (2012) 1, S.201-216 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
ISBN	978-1-6239-6008-7
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Attitudes; Authors; Novices; Political Attitudes; Intellectual History; Books; Criticism; College Faculty; Role of Religion; Bias; Free Enterprise System; Academic Freedom; Reputation; Literary Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Author; Autor; Autorin; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Geistesgeschichte; Book; Buch; Monographie; Monografie; Kritik; Fakultät; Freie Wirtschaft; Akademische Freiheit; Literaturkritik
Abstract	The March 24, 2008, edition of "National Review" (NR) was dedicated to the memory of its founder: William F. Buckley, Jr., who had passed away on February 27, 2008. It included thirty two different memorials about him written by prominent authors, editors, social commentators, fellow journalists, politicians, and historians. Then NR editor-at-large, John O'Sullivan, wrote the lead article, which summarized Buckley's long professional career. In 1955, Buckley founded "National Review," and O'Sullivan cited him as saying that this was his greatest achievement. Just barely over 25 years of age, his fame would be well established by his first book, "God and Man at Yale" (1951), which served as a critique of various liberal biases, as he had known them firsthand as a student, from the teachings of some of the faculty at his alma mater in the late 1940s. Nearly six decades after the publication of "God and Man at Yale," David Horowitz (2010) published "Reforming our Universities: The Campaign for an Academic Bill of Rights." In it, he argues that academia in America has become increasingly liberal and even more radicalized since Buckley's days as a student at Yale University. The purpose of this article is to describe in some detail Buckley's earliest writings from 1949 to 1955, which dealt almost exclusively with his critical views on American higher education and to remember him as one of the first serious challengers to the liberal orthodoxy that conservatives thought had come to dominate our colleges and universities by the late twentieth century. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10