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Hopeful Signs

An Englishman, a friend of mine, contemplating graduate study in America, recently talked with some Liberal American friends about his intentions. Where was he thinking of going? they asked. Why, my friend said, he was thinking of Georgetown, perhaps, or of Duke. The Liberals threw up their hands in horror. “Georgetown? But that’s a Catholic university! Duke? But that’s a Southern university!” In the Holy Liberal Inquisition, I need scarcely remark, to be either Catholic or Southern is somewhat worse than the Mark of the Beast. And the Holy Liberal Inquisition (I borrow the phrase from Dr. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn) dominates our educationist hierarchy.

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Hopeful Signs

An Englishman, a friend of mine, contemplating graduate study in America, recently talked with some Liberal American friends about his intentions. Where was he thinking of going? they asked. Why, my friend said, he was thinking of Georgetown, perhaps, or of Duke. The Liberals threw up their hands in horror. “Georgetown? But that’s a Catholic university! Duke? But that’s a Southern university!” In the Holy Liberal Inquisition, I need scarcely remark, to be either Catholic or Southern is somewhat worse than the Mark of the Beast. And the Holy Liberal Inquisition (I borrow the phrase from Dr. Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn) dominates our educationist hierarchy.