The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
Jamie Glazov interviews Frontpage Magazine’s founder and editor-in-chief David Horowitz to discuss his new book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics. One of the founders of the New Left movement in the 1960s, he is a best-selling author, a lifelong civil rights activist, and today the president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture.
This is an excerpt from the introduction to David Horowitz’s new book, which was officially released earlier this month.
Trials of the Intellect in the Post-Modern Academy
In January 2005, Professor Ward Churchill became a figure of national revulsion* when his impending visit to Hamilton College was linked to an article claiming that the victims of 9/11 were “little Eichmanns” who deserved their fate. Churchill’s article produced an outcry of such force that it led to the removal of the faculty head of the host committee at Hamilton and the resignation of the president of the University of Colorado where he was Professor of Ethnic Studies and Department Chair. As a result of the uproar, Churchill himself was removed as head of the Ethnic Studies Department and university authorities began an investigation into how he had acquired his faculty position in the first place.
Far from being a marginal crank, Ward Churchill was (and at this writing a year later still is) a prominent personage at the University of Colorado and in the academic world at large. A leading figure in the field of Ethnic Studies and widely published, his appearance at Hamilton in January 2005 would have been the 40th campus that had invited him to speak in the three years since 9/11.[1] The opinions expressed in his infamous article[2] were themselves far from obscure to his academic colleagues. They had first been published on the Internet in October 2001 and reflected views that were part of the intellectual core of his academic work, familiar both to university authorities in Colorado and to his faculty hosts at Hamilton. These facts made the scandal an event whose significances extended far beyond the fate of one individual to implicate the academic culture itself.
UPDATE: (5/16)
Michelle Malkin: “The Ward Churchill Report”
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