Darn you, internet.
I spent a goodly time reading on the good converted Catholic Knox, who was the Pope's choice to represent Catholics at Oxford when he let them attend. Not sure why they were forbidden..
He was of his grandfather's time, no doubt. Kind of glad he doesn't teach at the UofO, all in all. 
Sure, in the (American) Founders' time there was a need for hard edged thinking that told all Americans work or die, find your plot of land and make something of yourself. No one owed you anything because the jobs were there, as were the acres. Who needed health care? 
However, this ain't that time. In my far right New Hampshire Republican Grandfather's world, hippies were to be shot on sight, a comment I heard him make. His town had a large manufacturing base. Then that base moved, as did the hopes of many that the America dream was possible for them.
Knox was a creature of his time, and like my grandfather, not one one would hope to reason with.

Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon