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Members of the “motley crew that is Ivy-League conservatism” need to defend their ideology against “the liberal center encompassing the majority of the student body and the administration,” Douthat said...
Reminiscing about his undergraduate years, Douthat recalled an annual conference of conservatives at Harvard and Yale composed of “an ecclectic group of Reaganite Republicans, Catholics lamenting the end of the reign of the House of Stuart, and liberal anarchists...
Offering advice to conservative undergraduates in attendance, Douthat said that “the job of the American conservative is to explain why they’re right...
Comparing polls indicating that an increasing number of incoming undergraduates place greater importance on “success” rather than “constructing a philosophy of life,” Douthat concluded that students often work towards success for success’ sake...
...Students often focus too much on sex and money,” Douthat said. “As you get older, the drive for money only increases, while the drive for sex tends to decrease...