Scholarship for Sale

Pay me lots of money! We can chat about what I'll write. I've already got the book in mind. It's a triumphal tale of how the Kentucky General Assembly reformed education, steadily increased school spending, fought to bring the Ten Commandments back into the classroom where it belongs, and led the charge for better schools in Kentucky.

This from the New York Times:

Conservatives Try New Tack on Campuses

COLORADO SPRINGS — Acknowledging that 20 years and millions of dollars spent loudly and bitterly attacking the liberal leanings of American campuses have failed to make much of a dent in the way undergraduates are educated, some conservatives have decided to try a new strategy.

They are finding like-minded tenured professors and helping them establish academic beachheads for their ideas.

These initiatives, like the Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions at the University of Texas, Austin, or a project at the University of Colorado here in Colorado Springs, to publish a book of classic texts, are mostly financed by conservative organizations and donors, run by conservative professors. But they have a decidedly nonpartisan and nonideological face.

Their goal is to restore what conservative and other critics see as leading casualties of the campus culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s: the teaching of Western culture and a triumphal interpretation of American history...

Upcoming Events in Texas include:

Lecture:

The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

Roger Scruton

October 21, 2008

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Lecture

Book of Exodus

Leon Kass

November 7, 2008

6:00 PM-7:30 PM