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The masthead of this site starts with: > Filling the Void Left by Modern Higher Education. Too many college students feel isolated or attacked for questioning

• tim333 6y ago
  They seem fairly pro intellectual, just not lefty intellectual.
• dang 6y ago
  Hmm. When I looked at the previous HN articles from this site I found https://isi.org/modern-age/prophets-of-the-modern/ https://isi.org/modern-age/prophets-of-the-modern/, which struck me as the opposite of anti-intellectual. It's downright abstruse. Edit: oh, I see, this publication is basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Age_(periodical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Age_(periodical), which was founded by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirk. This is a well-known strain of highbrow paleoconservative intellectualism in the US. It's fine not to like it, of course, but anti-intellectual it definitely is not. From an HN point of view, we care about article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22article%20quality%22%20%22site%20quality%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... That's unavoidable on the internet, where the good stuff has to be picked out of rivers of bad and mediocre stuff. And actually if a good article comes from a bad source, that kind of makes it more interesting.