[news] In Defense of Academic Freedom

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

The really ferocious rightwing response to **[Ward] Churchill's** essay, _Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens_ began in January 2005. Fueled by anti-academics such as...David Horowitz, it brought Churchill into the spotlight. [The] president [of the University of Colorado] at the time, Elizabeth Hoffman...told the faculty she feared of a "new McCarthyism" a week before resigning her post. Her successor [Hank] Brown has campaigned tirelessly for Churchill's dismissal...

  


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