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To: Win Smith who wrote (198196)	8/22/2012 8:29:12 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541326

So far as his desirability as a speaker for the conservative self-love circuit, a pretty darn small part, I'd say. Now that he's got visibility, I imagine his chosen audience is about as interested in what serious scholars think of Ferguson as they are in what serious scholars think of, say, global warming or supply side economics. These gigs aren't oriented toward the reality-based community. That's not the problem. Those lecture circuits are several fold--businesses, college campuses, and so on. The college campus portion will be in trouble should his Harvard prestige crumble. And, you may be surprised, those college campus visits can be quite profitable. Ferguson's claim to fame is his scholarship before it is any political position he takes. And if those scholarship creds suffer, the lecture circuit bit suffers. It's very difficult to build a strong academic reputation, one that attracts all sorts of flies, including the ones Ferguson now has buzzing around him. But it's quite easy to lose it.