Does a professorial pogrom beckon?
Please reassure me.
"Today's accusations against subversive professors differ from those of the past in several respects. In a sign of the times, the test for disloyalty has shifted far toward the center. Once an unreliable professor meant an anarchist or communist; now it includes Democrats. Soon it will be anyone to the left of Attila the Hun."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=jacoby
I am starting to worry that America is on the verge of an academic witch-hunt of mammoth proportions, that this could be the neoMcCarthyist juggernaut we all fear.
Neoconservatism does not tolerate disagreement, much less dissent.
Academia is the only thing left they do not control, the only thing left that has not been completely taken over by commercialization.
They are going to eat us alive.
Matthew
"Today's accusations against subversive professors differ from those of the past in several respects. In a sign of the times, the test for disloyalty has shifted far toward the center. Once an unreliable professor meant an anarchist or communist; now it includes Democrats. Soon it will be anyone to the left of Attila the Hun."
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050404&s=jacoby
I am starting to worry that America is on the verge of an academic witch-hunt of mammoth proportions, that this could be the neoMcCarthyist juggernaut we all fear.
Neoconservatism does not tolerate disagreement, much less dissent.
Academia is the only thing left they do not control, the only thing left that has not been completely taken over by commercialization.
They are going to eat us alive.
Matthew
posted by Matthew at 3:12 PM
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