{"id":118,"date":"2006-11-29T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T07:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/academic-politicians\/"},"modified":"2006-11-29T23:39:36","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T07:39:36","slug":"academic-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/29\/academic-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t watch the news very often.  I find that mostly, the world can get on just fine without me paying too much attention.  I watched the CBC news tonight.  There was a bunch of stuff about the Liberal leadership race.  I noticed a trend&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Ignatieff\">Michael Ignatieff<\/a> is the front runner.  Ignatieff is a hardcore public academic, having worked at UBC, Oxford, LSE, and Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/St%C3%A9phane_Dion\">St\u00c3\u00a9phane Dion<\/a> is the son of an academic and has had faculty positions at the Universities of Moncton and Montreal.  A less impressive CV, but nothing to turn one&#8217;s nose up at.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Rae\">Bob Rae<\/a> is the least academic of the bunch.  He was merely a Rhodes Scholar.  Rae and Ignatieff both studied under <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isaiah_Berlin\">Isaiah Berlin<\/a>&mdash;seems like there might be some kind of conspiracy in there.<\/p>\n<p>But, they were all in political science or public policy.  As a computer scientist, I&#8217;d probably have to settle for being a lousy Premier or something.<\/p>\n<p>Even our &#8220;populist&#8221; leader, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Harper\">Stephen Harper<\/a>, has an MA in Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t watch the news very often. I find that mostly, the world can get on just fine without me paying too much attention. I watched the CBC news tonight. There was a bunch of stuff about the Liberal leadership race. I noticed a trend&hellip; Michael Ignatieff is the front runner. Ignatieff is a hardcore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}