Excellent local campus blog Urbanagora has this interesting post:
The University of Illinois is in the process of establishing The Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government. This will promote the study of how the free market, in cooperation with a state founded in liberty, can bring upward mobility to the poor and a star-spanning future to humanity.
As a "small-L" libertarian myself, I wonder how this is going to be received by the campus community.
That is really great.
But I wonder how long it takes King Diversity to infiltrate, cripple, and finally turn it into a Marxist propaganda arm, studying the harmful effects of Capitalism and Limited Government.
Thanks for the compliment and the link...this is a really interesting development for our campus. It seems like something that only alumni could get going. A friend of mine has emailed them trying to find more information, as the site is fairly vague. I'll let you know if we find out anything interesting.
After reading the website some and the entire brochure, the idea sounds great; hopefully there are plenty of alumni and other interested parties that will fund this. they even state they'll "encourage individual rights and individual responsibility as a counterpoint to the culture of entitlement, dependency and victimhood". I wonder, along with Loren Heal, how long before King Diversity steps in and tries to co-opt this effort and turn it into another group in the AWARE/STOP/People's Republic of Urbana outreach program...
There is one statement that somewhat troubles me. From both the .pdf brochure and the website's mainpage, i found the following "The Board will, with the concurrence of the Urbana-Champaign campus chancellor, make funding decisions and the U of I Foundation will manage the investment of gifts contributed to the Academy Fund." Not knowing anything about these funds, endowments, etc; is this a standard, almost-boilerplate statements, or does any else think this may be the wedge into killing this program as soon as possible, or making it ineffective by controlling the purse?
Thanks,
HG