Comments on: Academia and the Internet: Rising From the Stalinist Ashes Like the University of Phoenix http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/ Big Ideas for a Better World Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Hispanic Pundit » Quote Of The Day http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/#comment-232 Hispanic Pundit » Quote Of The Day Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:43:32 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/#comment-232 [...] “I’m not a conservative, have never been a conservative, and don’t ever expect to become a conservative. So it spooks me how accurate all those old-time McCarthyite rants about Communist subversion turned out to be now that we have the Venona transcripts and ex-KGB generals telling all to historians. Back in the ’60s and ’70s I thought I was as hard-core anti totalitarian as an American boy could be, but even I bought some of the obscuring smoke that the anti-anticommunist “liberals” were peddling”. –Eric S. Raymond, In a conversation over at Cato Unbound, detailing the Marxist seduction of the Universities Filed under: General, (modern day) Liberalism, Academia by HispanicPundit | [...] […] “I’m not a conservative, have never been a conservative, and don’t ever expect to become a conservative. So it spooks me how accurate all those old-time McCarthyite rants about Communist subversion turned out to be now that we have the Venona transcripts and ex-KGB generals telling all to historians. Back in the ’60s and ’70s I thought I was as hard-core anti totalitarian as an American boy could be, but even I bought some of the obscuring smoke that the anti-anticommunist “liberals” were peddling”. –Eric S. Raymond, In a conversation over at Cato Unbound, detailing the Marxist seduction of the Universities Filed under: General, (modern day) Liberalism, Academia by HispanicPundit | […]

]]> By: Doctor Recommended » Blog Archive » Without the State who will accredit? http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/#comment-160 Doctor Recommended » Blog Archive » Without the State who will accredit? Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:52:24 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/#comment-160 [...] I have discussed this topic with a number of individuals including economist Arnold Kling who pointed to a recent Eric S. Raymond piece that also discusses the Forbes article from computer scientist, David Gelernter. Dr. Kling mentioned that of late, this monopoly on accreditation would be difficult to crack. He suggests that one direction an entrepreneur could start from is by building a legitimate wedge between high school and college, perhaps along the lines of a vocational school – instead of trying to replace college entirely. [...] […] I have discussed this topic with a number of individuals including economist Arnold Kling who pointed to a recent Eric S. Raymond piece that also discusses the Forbes article from computer scientist, David Gelernter. Dr. Kling mentioned that of late, this monopoly on accreditation would be difficult to crack. He suggests that one direction an entrepreneur could start from is by building a legitimate wedge between high school and college, perhaps along the lines of a vocational school – instead of trying to replace college entirely. […]

]]> By: sisu http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/#comment-152 sisu Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:46:08 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/01/25/eric-s-raymond/academia-and-the-internet/#comment-152 <strong>The inherent corruption of unlimited government</strong> The reason I became a Republican [was] because I did not want to vote for Democrats. This will be the same reason when I leave the Republican Party, writes Minh-Duc of State of Flux in an eloquent personal Declaration of The inherent corruption of unlimited government

The reason I became a Republican [was] because I did not want to vote for Democrats. This will be the same reason when I leave the Republican Party, writes Minh-Duc of State of Flux in an eloquent personal Declaration of

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