Conservative Students at Liberal-Arts Colleges Face Difficulty

As the newest Buckley Fellow, I think it’s only proper that one of the first pieces I write should have a kinship with that great man’s God and Man at Yale, if only reminiscent of a rotund burl on the family tree.

But you’ve not found here an attempt to replicate the original, as it requires neither revision nor contemporary facsimile. I invoke the example because Buckley was capable of adoring his alma mater while also excoriating its manifold afflictions, emotions shared as I consider the academy and conservatives’ relationship with it.

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Luther Ray Abel

Luther Ray Abel is an Associate Editor for National Review. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Luther is a proud native of Sheboygan, Wis.

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As the newest Buckley Fellow, I think it’s only proper that one of the first pieces I write should have a kinship with that great man’s God and Man at Yale, if only reminiscent of a rotund burl on the family tree.

But you’ve not found here an attempt to replicate the original, as it requires neither revision nor contemporary facsimile. I invoke the example because Buckley was capable of adoring his alma mater while also excoriating its manifold afflictions, emotions shared as I consider the academy and conservatives’ relationship with it.