BOOK FACTOID

I got Gordon H. Nash's The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945 from the library and I was surprised by the number of names I didn't recognize. I knew some of the big names (Hayek, von Mises, Buckley, Friedman) but there are a whole slew of folks that are new to me, such as Russell Kirk, William Henry Chamberlain, Alfred Jay Nock, and Frank Chodorov.

Nash recognizes many strands in the rope called "Conservatism," such as classical liberalism, neo-liberalism, traditionalists, and so-called New Conservatives. Considering the rabid whines of David Horowittz today about liberal bias in the academy, there seems to have been plenty of room for conservatives at a time when liberalism, as we understand it today, was by far the dominant ideology.

Here's a short list of conservatives and the schools they taught at:

John Hallowell - Duke University
Ludwig von Mises - NYU Graduate School of Business Administration
Wilmoore Kendall - Yale University
Leo Strauss - New School for Social Research, University of Chicago
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn - Georgetown University, Fordham University
Frank H. Knight - University of Chicago