To me, the greatest good in life was to be an academic, to be able to study in the great libraries and read German romantic poetry and Wordsworth,' she says. Text' was all that mattered, went the mantra, and the search for facts was a futile exercise. Because he opposed recounting the Florida ballots, thereby exhibiting a distrust of ever knowing the truth. After studying apostles of deconstructionist thought, such as Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, Miss Mac Donald graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1978. Now you have literature professors bragging they never read books.
People write law review articles about the stiffness of their hair.
She briefly returned to Yale in 1980 for graduate work, only to be repelled by the growing radical feminism and race-baiting there. Although she studied with former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork, she also encountered courses like Critical Race Theory and Feminist Jurisprudence, dominant academic theories that defined reason as a tool of male oppression. For instance, she says, one of her professors believed that every job in a law school should be rotated, so that even the janitors would get a crack at teaching law. After clerking for a federal judge in Los Angeles, she worked as a lawyer for the Environmental Protection Agency in the District. When she moved to New York in 1987, she already had articles published in the New Criterion, a conservative magazine, one of which scathingly analyzed a multiculturalism report sponsored by then-Gov.