California State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest update: June 13, 1999
Faculty on the Site.

• "Scholars for the University of Chicago"
  News article refers to academic conservatism
  
• Perceiving Racism: Structural Violence and The Halo Effect
  
• Links to Conservative Sites
  
• Standards of Excellence in Our Schools, Conservative, Liberal, and Critical
  
• New Links Waiting to Go Up January 2000
  

New York Times article by Ethan Bronner, "U. of Chicago President, Who Sought to Revise the Core Curriculum, Will Return to Teaching," page A9, Saturday, June 5, 1999. Problems superficially similar to those felt by universities around the country led to controversy: updated curriculum, appeal to a broader and more diverse group of students, revitalization of the campus community, and the President's loss of faculty and student consensus are described. NYTimes.

In opposition to these changes, "an ad hoc group of nationally known conservative intellectuals called Scholars for the University of Chicago" was formed. "Among those involved were the author Saul Bellow, the sociologist David Riesman and the educator, Mortimer J. Adler."

Recall that no placement of any individual on a spectrum by others, or even by themselves, tells the whole story in all situations. But recognize that, in this instance, these scholars were willing to accept membership in this group, which Ethan Bronner calls "conservative."

Links to Conservative Sites

• The Claremont Organization
  Site identified to us as source on problems with California PERS investments in China.
  See Political spectrum analysis for analysis of politically conservative nature of site. Links added January 28, 2000.

• Conservative News Service
  Added in the habermasian interest of assuring that all validity claims be heard in good faith.
  Link added May 29, 1999.

• National Center for Policy Analysis
  The CONSERVATIVE Perspective. Many links to think tanks, and to other sites.
  Site came to Dear Habermas through Annie Nedd's research.
  Awards for presentation of conservative view. Link added May 29, 1999.

Links Waiting to Go Up

• Upstream
  Web site for the politically incorrect. Looked to me like libertarian, which tends to take a critical approach, just one that doesn't like government as a means to make the programs and the system better. Favors good old American individualism.
• Goldberg's Why Men Rule