He clearly came to class stoned quite often. He always had an escort of a couple of the best looking young women in his class, it was said they always got high grades and weren't all that smart, trading sex for those grades.
The man could not argue his way out of a paper bag if challenged.
I remember one of my daughters friends talking about Howard Zinn's wonderful historical work. When I told him what the guy was actually like, he turned beet red.
The idea that he has the most read "history book" in the US is appalling......
I do believe Mitch is safe with his job at Purdue for a bit longer...
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130719/NEWS07/130719432
Purdue gives Mitch Daniels a performance bonus
What people don’t realize,outside of a handful of those who fight the Academic Left, is that Zinn was always a communist, a one-time member of the Communist Party USA, and an ideologue, first and foremost.
I don’t give a damn if a commie writes a book about history, per se. It is the fact that most of them are so demonstrably biased, inaccurate, and ideological, that they have almost no “educational value”. Propaganda value, yes, but educational value, no.
However, to the reds they do have an “educational value”, which is known as misinformation, disinformation, obscuring the facts, omitting the facts, and promoting communism/marxism under the guise of teaching “history”.
There is a major debate raging among legitimate Vietnam scholars (many of whom are combat veterans of that war) and the Left historians who were never there during the war, have openly supported Hanoi’s aggression and genocide throughout Indochina, and who aim to destroy the truths about what was at stake in this war.
The Left blames America for the war, yet Hanoi decided in the 1950’s that it was going to conquer the South, in spite of treaties, promises of non-aggression, etc. There was a little predecessor war known as the Korean War which involved these same precepts of the communists, conquest by hook or crook.
Groups like Acccuray in Academia, Accuracy in Media (its parent body), the National Association of Scholars, SPME (pro-Israel scholars re the Middle East), CAMERA, etc., are dedicated to fighting academia leftist educational fraud courses and propaganda.
However, the newspapers are one of the biggest bunch of truth-offenders because of the ignoramuses they hire as “jouralists”, many of whom are on the far-Left themselves.
If I had a dollar for every time the NYT or the Wash. Post blamed something on McCarthyism (esp. in obituaries on the Leftists), I’d be in Hawaii right now, on a beach, tweeting away about nothing.
Zinn is a poster-child for communist professors and liars,but he is only the tip of the Red Iceberg of Academia.
Lower the oceans a bit and you’ll find more Red Ice than you could ever imagine (Columbia, Rutgers, NYU, CUNY, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Un. of Chicago, Harvard, Yale, etc).
And law schools are just as bad, if not worse.
Hopefully a lot of those in academia on the hardcore Left will be exposed in the near future. Conservatives are now more aware of what is out there then ever before, and “taking names, taking notes”.
Gonna be an interesting year, folks.