The conclusion one must draw from such examples isn’t that every institution has its bad apples but rather that, at least in the liberal arts in America, moral turpitude and political hucksterism pervades higher education.
Radical criminals with questionable academic credentials flourish in a milieu that bristles with hostility toward real scholars who don’t toe the party line—witness the case of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers.
Individuals with prison records or FBI rap sheets don’t get into major educational institutions because they fudge their resumes.
They get in because they share the political dogmas of those who hire them—and they flourish for the same reason.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9944
“Individuals with prison records or FBI rap sheets don’t get into
major educational institutions because they fudge their resumes.
They get in because they share the political dogmas of those who hire them—and they flourish for the same reason.”
Here’s profiles on two cases-in-point (thanks to David Horowitz
and Front Page Mag):
BILL AYERS
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2169
BERNARDINE DOHRN
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190
People like Ward Churchill remind us that there are the phony and the authentic — which brings down everything that is phony and can no longer stand the test of authenticity and the truth.
That’s also how the mainstream media began to fall — when the Jaysun Blairs rocketed to the top of the journalism world, along with the Dan Rathers, Chris Mathews, Keith Olbermanns, Rosie O’Donnells, and all these false idols of mass media. Those institutions lose credibility and become supplanted by something better, something real, something worthwhile and enduring.
It was overdue for the schools and universities that commanded a blank check from government and communities. There are better ways of performing those functions of transmitting information in this age — rather than doing it in the traditional manner of pretentious scholarship and credentials.
So it’s really not a bad thing — but a necessary and inevitable thing for these people to be exposed. The truly worthy will always be few — and capable of proving themselves, and not simply because they’ve earned the lifetime right not be to have their authority challenged ever again no matter how much they abuse that trust.
What is interesting is to see all the other con-artists and mediocrities rallying to his defense as though they can’t tell the difference — and want nobody else to.
yeah,
the feminist that got up and walked out feeling sick because of president lawrence summers speech
should have been administered smelling salts.
Who knows, it might lead to a second chance, after all, if he could play in Peoria, . . .