Liberal academic: conservatives are "stupid".

"We try to hire the best, smartest people available.... If, as John Stuart The name John Stuart can refer to:

John Stuart, 4th Earl of Atholl (d. 1579)
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–1792), Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762–1763.

Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire.... Mill's analysis may go some way towards explaining the power of the Republican party in our society and the relative scarcity Scarcity

The basic economic problem which arises from people having unlimited wants while there are and always will be limited resources. Because of scarcity, various economic decisions must be made to allocate resources efficiently. of Republicans in academia. Players in the NBA NBA
abbr.
1. National Basketball Association

2. National Boxing Association

NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= tend to be taller than average. There is a good reason for this. Members of academia tend to be a bit smarter than average. There is a good reason for this too."

--Dr. Robert Brandon

Chair of the Philosophy Department. Duke University

The Chronicle chronicle, official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. Online (campus newspaper)

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Title Annotation:	Stranger Than Fiction
Author:	Brandon, Robert
Publication:	The New American
Date:	May 3, 2004
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