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Many academics lean left, but some of the biggest academic impacts on the real world came from conservatives. The Chicago-school economists were behind the Neol
by pradn 3y ago
Many academics lean left, but some of the biggest academic impacts on the real world came from conservatives. The Chicago-school economists were behind the Neoliberal turn -- directly causing the overthrow of Allende, the market shocks after the Cold War. And the NeoCon academics in foreign policy & history were behind interventionist wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
- birdofhermes 3y agoNot to mention the Federalist Society and their attack on constitutional law over the past twenty-some years.
- tastyfreeze 3y agoCan you give some examples of the Federalist Society attacking Constitutional law? That seems antithetical to their mission statement.
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