{"id":242356,"date":"2010-01-28T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=31877"},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:10:25","slug":"indiana-university-40000-for-edwards-nothing-for-free-market-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242356","title":{"rendered":"Indiana University: $40,000 for Edwards, Nothing for Free Market Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge<\/p>\n<p>This via CampusReform.org and the <em>Indiana Standard<\/em>, a student paper that is &#8220;dedicated to the&nbsp;free exchange of ideas and the proliferation of conservative and libertarian thought&#8230;&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t believe his(sic) has sufficient academic credibility, on the basis of some discussion with Economics professors.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That came from a person actively involved with Indiana University&rsquo;s guest lecture program following a campus organization&rsquo;s request to invite a speaker to the University. The person lacking the &ldquo;sufficient academic credibility&rdquo; is a man named&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomasewoods.com\/about\/\">Thomas Woods<\/a>&nbsp;whose academic pedigree features undergraduate study at Harvard and doctoral completion at Columbia. Granted, Dr. Thomas Woods is not a professor at any university and fancy Ivy League degrees hardly suffice as academic credentials to guest lecture at a top-tier University such as Indiana, but&nbsp;<strong>why would the Indiana University Department of Economics professors and the Indiana University Union Board Lectures Committee refuse to host a two-time&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>bestselling author and Mises Institute Senior Scholar?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/iub.campusreform.org\/group\/86\/blog\/indiana-university-40000-for-edwards-nothing-for-free-market-thinkers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> &lt;!&#8211;EndFragment&#8211;><\/p>\n<p><span>Unlike Indiana University, Campaign for Liberty is sponsoring&nbsp;Tom&#8217;s lecture&nbsp;&#8220;When All Else Fails: Thomas Jefferson, Nullification &amp; State Resistence to Federal Tyranny&#8221; on&nbsp;February 18 at CPAC in Washington, DC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Our discounted tickets to CPAC are going extremely fast, so&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/ct\/3785643:5550330200:m:1:170997214:1CC2A5A13CE414678AD4640A207820F2\" ><span>click here to reserve your space<\/span><\/a><span>!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Holdridge This via CampusReform.org and the Indiana Standard, a student paper that is &#8220;dedicated to the&nbsp;free exchange of ideas and the proliferation of conservative and libertarian thought&#8230;&#8221;.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t believe his(sic) has sufficient academic credibility, on the basis of some discussion with Economics professors.&rdquo; That came from a person actively involved with Indiana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}