re: Fun topic - for the LSU folks - any professors with an interesting political life?

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There are a few businesses professors who are pretty Conservative, but they are VERY QUIET about it

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I'd imagine that's true in most university settings

Most of my professors were professional enough to keep their political leanings to themselves.

To stay on topic I took this philosophy class from this guy named James Taylor and he has this obsession with organ markets. Out of curiosity I looked into it the other day and he has published hundreds of essays and a few books. This is from his author page on amazon:

James Stacey Taylor is a Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey. He has written over 100 academic articles and book reviews. He is the author of five books, including Stakes and Kidneys, Practical Autonomy and Bioethics, Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics, and Bloody Bioethics: Why prohibiting donor compensation harms patients and wrongs donors.

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His most recent book (March 2022) is Markets with Limits: How the commodification of academia derails debate. He is also the editor of Personal Autonomy: New Essays and The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death.

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Definitely a class that challenged a lot of common assumptions.

There was this dude who taught Louisiana History in a Poli Sci class everybody loved, myself included. Wayne something.

He was good.

Rob Haswell brought Rugby to LSU as a visiting professor in the 70's and later had a long career as a politician in South Africa.