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Entry: Ron Paul: It's Payback Time Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_paul_its_payback_time#11138 Post contents: PS, just a marginal note to Professor Gottfried, about a pattern I've observed in his posts here, and again I say this with deferential humility and considerable respect for Professor Gottfried, acknowledging that he is a more accomplished scholar (and probably more of a real Gentleman) than I will ever be. But... ...well, Professor Gottfried, when you say (as you did in your most recent blog-post here) that your career was "wrecked" by the neocons, well I just wonder, aren't you being a BIT ungenerous to your colleagues at Elizabethtown College? I mean, yes I've noticed that you often express great respect for Elizabethtown College. But then in the next breath you say your career was "wrecked" - and then I think, "by what? By losing the (very dubious) "prestige" of being a Professor at a major DC university, and then going instead to Elizabethtown College, in one of the most beautiful areas in all America? (Remember, I'm a Pennsylvanian, from the old countryside of Montgomery County, very close to and similar to where John Lukacs lives - and remember, he, one of the greatest historians of our age, spent the main and best part of his career at a small liberal arts college, Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia - and that was a place where he was (probably) MORE able to maintain his professional independence and integrity, than if he had gotten tenure at Harvard (GW Bush's MBA alma mater), a place which does not deserve Lukacs! OR YOU! Professor Gottfried, I tend to think you actually got a PROMOTION when you moved to Elizabethtown College! And isn't the company there more agreeable, and more honest, than the company at Harvard or any DC Behemoth University? Just a reminder, that when you write about your career being "wrecked", well, maybe that's not QUITE the best term for a guy to use, who is enjoying the peculiar, rare privilege of being a Professor at Elizabethtown College. And then, there's another simple truth to remember: If someone loves Honour more than ephemeral prestige, the no one can ever "wreck" his career - because, isn't a path of honour and integrity the only kind of career that matters in the long run? Just reminding you of that, perhaps a BIT impertinently, but I hope you will welcome my thoughts, which I have proffered to you with great personal respect and considerable admiration. Sent at: 2008 05 15