Political Trivia Question: Can you name this person?

[markdc]

Anyone up for a bit of fun?

As most of you know, in the 1964 election, President Lyndon Johnson defeated Senator Barry Goldwater in one of the biggest electoral landslides in U.S. history. At Harvard University, a young student was so ecstatic by this outcome that he/she literally ran to the school library so that he/she could read the latest issue of National Review magazine and bask in William F. Buckley’s tears. Who was this person? (Hint: He/she later became a Rightwing intellectual.)

Mark

 

[Mycroft]

Anyone up for a bit of fun?

As most of you know, in the 1964 election, President Lyndon Johnson defeated Senator Barry Goldwater in one of the biggest electoral landslides in U.S. history. At Harvard University, a young student was so ecstatic by this outcome that he/she literally ran to the school library so that he/she could read the latest issue of National Review magazine and bask in William F. Buckley’s tears. Who was this person? (Hint: He/she later became a Rightwing intellectual.)

Mark

Copilot knows everything. And now I do, too. LOL!!

Hint: "Axis of Evil".

 

[Airyaman]

Anyone up for a bit of fun?

As most of you know, in the 1964 election, President Lyndon Johnson defeated Senator Barry Goldwater in one of the biggest electoral landslides in U.S. history. At Harvard University, a young student was so ecstatic by this outcome that he/she literally ran to the school library so that he/she could read the latest issue of National Review magazine and bask in William F. Buckley’s tears. Who was this person? (Hint: He/she later became a Rightwing intellectual.)

Mark

A "rightwing intellectual"?

Now we're talking fantasy.

 

[LouC]

A "rightwing intellectual"?

Now we're talking fantasy.

 

[Hari Seldon]

A "rightwing intellectual"?

Now we're talking fantasy.

Yea, I was thinking oxymoron.

 

[Craig234]

Right-wing intellectual, nearly an oxymoron, sorry. There are a few evil ones like Milton Friedman. Don't know your person. A number of people who were supposedly liberal were corrupted different ways and switched. That was a popular con job for the right. They'd claim they had been liberal to try to convince people they weren't just heartless oligarchs, and then stabbed them in the back. Like Reagan.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

A "rightwing intellectual"?

Now we're talking fantasy.

We get examples of their intellect every day on here, didn't ya know?

 

[Gozaburo]

A "rightwing intellectual"?

Now we're talking fantasy.

Heidegger, Spengler, Schmitt, Jünger. Plenty of right wing intellectuals which were clearly extremely intelligent, even if I disagree with some of their conclusions.

To be honest, I can't really name any impressive contemporary left wing intellectuals either. Maybe Zizek, but even he is kind of a pop-philosopher. We don't really live in an age of impressive thinkers.

 

[TobyOne]

Harvard now:

 

[Sven Karma]

Taylor Swift?

 

[markdc]

Harvard now:
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I think it’s funny to hear Leftists claim everyone on the Right is stupid and ignorant when the Left can’t even grasp basic biology or understand simple concepts like the difference between men and women. They just go with whatever “reality” their freakshow interest groups tell them to.

It doesn’t look like anyone will be able to answer my question, so I will give the answer: It was sociologist Charles Murray.

Mark