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Found a new local blog this morning that looks interesting: Professors R Squared. They claim to be the only openly Republican political science professors in Houston, maybe even Texas. Sounds like they would get along nicely with Benjamin Shapiro, who someone suggested to James Campbell that the Chronicle hire since Cragg Hines is retiring.

Benjamin Shapiro’s columns, though, are extremely ridiculous. The Chron is looking for a local conservative, which doesn’t bug me too much but also doesn’t exactly replace Cragg Hines, but Shapiro is absurd. Can you imagine the Chron running a column titled “The Radical Evil Of The Palestinian Arab Population”? Because that’s what last week’s Ben Shapiro column was called. This week’s was slightly tamer, focusing on “The Big Lie About The Great Depression.”

The reason that this blog reminded me of Ben Shapiro was that he wrote a book challenging the liberal bias in professors at colleges and universities. He also wrote a book about “the porn generation,” but that’s another post altogether. His relevant book is called Brainwashed. In this book, Shapiro proves that colleges are really “dungeons of the mind that indoctrinate students to become socialists, atheists, race-baiters, and narcissists.” Mmhmm. I intend to read it myself and find out.

So I think we can probably count him out as far as the Chronicle goes. Maybe one of the professors would like to apply for the job?

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