Cat Pictures; Richard Baehr of American Thinker

Alaina the neuroscientist grad student's blog, with adorable cat pictures

Kenyon alums are also fostering kittens.

Unrelatedly, I wrote about Richard Baehr earlier: he's now got a profile in the new Kenyon Alumni Bulletin. It begins:

In the heat of political partisanship, Richard Baehr '69 keeps cool. He expresses his conservative outlook with calm assurance backed by facts instead of rants. "My goal is to persuade people, and you don't persuade people by screaming at them," Baehr said.

And that's the tone throughout. There's some description of his beliefs, but it didn't dig as deep as I would have liked.

Now, I realize that Alumni magazines are not meant to be hard-hitting. On the other hand, Baehr and fellow American Thinker Kenyon grads criticized the Bulletin pretty heavily a few years ago for not interrogating Professor Schubel about his statements on Islam. The phrase "stunning puff piece interview" was used.

In light of this, it would have been nice to see some discussion in the Bulletin article regarding that set of incidents.

In light of that, I'd like to interview Baehr about his Kenyon experience, his perceptions of Kenyon now, the American Thinker, what he thinks are the most important issues in American politics at the moment, the Gaza blockade, and -- as I discussed earlier -- why so many Kenyon alumni are involved in the conservative movement. I'll e-mail him and see how this goes.