Professor Mcclay News Today

The Center of the American Experiment hosted Wilfred McClay this past Friday over lunch in Bloomington to speak on the abomination of Minnesotas social studies standards in process. It was not only a great event, thanks to John Hinderaker letting me join him at the head table, the lunch gave me a chance to catch up briefly with Professor McClay. Professor McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical

Ten years ago Wilfred McClay explained the deep meaning of Rush Limbaugh in the Commentary essay How to understand Rush Limbaugh. I more or less celebrated Professor McClays essay in the post Critique of pure Rush. Ten years later Professor McClay is back with an essay/review occasioned by Tucker Carlsons collection The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism. The review is published by First Things under the heading Tucker