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An NY Times article about Claremont quoted one of Jaffa's sons as saying that the institute wanted to put a robe on Ayn Rand and call her Aristotle or a top hat

by cafard 3y ago

An NY Times article about Claremont quoted one of Jaffa's sons as saying that the institute wanted to put a robe on Ayn Rand and call her Aristotle or a top hat on Jefferson Davis and call him Lincoln.

dredmorbius 3y ago
Would you have a link to that? There's a long-form profile on Claremont posted about a year ago on 3 August 2022, "How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right" <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-instit...> It mentions Aristotle, and quotes Jaffe's son, Philip, but there's no mention of Jefferson Davis or Ayn Rand. I don't find anything including those elements in a broader search (beyond nytimes.com) either. There's a tweet which combines several of the terms though: <https://nitter.net/_strate/status/1551418137576456192#m https://nitter.net/_strate/status/1551418137576456192#m>
- cafard 3y ago
  I can look tonight.
- cafard 3y ago
  Wrong newspaper: https://twitter.com/mroth78/status/1556653036566618113 https://twitter.com/mroth78/status/1556653036566618113
  - dredmorbius 3y ago
    Thanks! Direct link: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-john-eastman-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-j...> And the context around that is helpful. Apparent Jaffa was #notafan of Claremont ultimately: Jaffa would have been disappointed but unsurprised by the institute’s fealty to Trump, according to one of his sons, Philip Jaffa, who said his late father had grown disturbed by the institute’s teachings. Philip Jaffa said his father had harsh words for the institute, which he “repeated endlessly those last few years.” “They did not wait to bury the teaching with the teacher,” Jaffa recalled his father saying. “What they are trying to do is put a top hat on Jefferson Davis and call it Abraham Lincoln and the dust cover of the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ on ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and call it Aristotle.”

by cafard 3y ago

dredmorbius 3y ago

Would you have a link to that? There's a long-form profile on Claremont posted about a year ago on 3 August 2022, "How the Claremont Institute Became a Nerve Center of the American Right" <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-instit...> It mentions Aristotle, and quotes Jaffe's son, Philip, but there's no mention of Jefferson Davis or Ayn Rand. I don't find anything including those elements in a broader search (beyond nytimes.com) either. There's a tweet which combines several of the terms though: <https://nitter.net/_strate/status/1551418137576456192#m https://nitter.net/_strate/status/1551418137576456192#m>

cafard 3y ago
I can look tonight.
cafard 3y ago
Wrong newspaper: https://twitter.com/mroth78/status/1556653036566618113 https://twitter.com/mroth78/status/1556653036566618113
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  Thanks! Direct link: <https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-john-eastman-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-j...> And the context around that is helpful. Apparent Jaffa was #notafan of Claremont ultimately: Jaffa would have been disappointed but unsurprised by the institute’s fealty to Trump, according to one of his sons, Philip Jaffa, who said his late father had grown disturbed by the institute’s teachings. Philip Jaffa said his father had harsh words for the institute, which he “repeated endlessly those last few years.” “They did not wait to bury the teaching with the teacher,” Jaffa recalled his father saying. “What they are trying to do is put a top hat on Jefferson Davis and call it Abraham Lincoln and the dust cover of the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ on ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and call it Aristotle.”