Conservatives on Campus - I went to an exceedlingly sleepy little college out on the Great Plains, where students were generally too busy trying to learn how to earn a living that didn't involve repairing tractors to bother with politics too much. For what it was worth, I was a McGovern democrat until sometime my sophomore year, when a combination of Aleksandyr Solzhenitzyn, Fyodor Doestoyevskii and P. J. O'Rourke started me on the conservative path I'm on today.
As much as I love playing the underdog, I almost wish I were in college today, as a conservative. The odds conservatives on the campi of major universities seem almost melodramatically daunting. In other words, fun.
Posted by Mitch at March 24, 2002 08:52 PM