Yeah, Phil made his thought provoking remarks for the Houston Chronicle and the next day, there was a demonstration in front of his office by students, many of them in the Corp of Cadets, asking for a clarification of his remarks. Have you ever seen a demonstration of mostly conservative and right wing students against a conservative right wing political thinker. Strangely enough he never returned to the classroom and left his tenured position at A&M to pursue other interests. I would conjecture it was to get away from 18-20 year old students who wanted to show their original thinking and "smarts" to his person.
Just think; if he hadn't been such a complete ass and kept his mouth shut in this instance, the US wouldn't have been subjected to his economic wizardry. A&M's gain was America's loss.