The "People You Should Know" category (in the right side bar) is a list of academics, authors and old-school men of letters that are important to me.  They have been part of an academic tradition on the right that has been largely ignored in the "popular" culture.

That's one of my pet peeves.  Today in America, and around the world, the vernacular of Leftists Criticism is constant.  It is the sea we swim in whether we like it or not.  In college you learn everything you could ever want to know about Marx and more than you can stand of the Left Hegelians and the Right Hegelians and the Frankfurt School and the Postmodernists. (Right now your're thinking you didn't, but trust me, they got to you, unless you were an engineer, in which case you were too busy).

Industrialism, Imperialism, Exploitation, Alienation and the rest of it.  Blah.

Quick, why are the poor, poor?  The Man, the system, the inherent inequalities of the Capitalist system, right?  You may not believe it, but you know the spiel.

Those assumptions underlay our entire popular culture.  When was the last time you saw a good industrialist in a movie?  A heroic banker?

The acceptance of the Leftist critique wouldn't chafe me quite as much if it wasn't based on ignorance of the Conservative defense.  Most of the loudest Leftists in this country don't have the slightest clue who the PYSK people are, excepting C.S.Lewis, known for his fiction, not his academic and (broadly) Christian work.

I'll be referencing, and hopefully expanding upon a lot of the authors in that list from time to time, so do us all a favor and read them.

And I mean read the things they've written, not just the wikipedia page.  I've linked wikipedia for now, but as I find better homepages for them or do write ups here I'll change that...

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