[LS]

This is absolutely right. I use this example all the time in arguing why NO university should waste time with a class on Marx, except as offering a historical dead end:

If we take as axiomatic the principle that colleges exist in order to pursue and disseminate the truth, it follows that no accredited mathematics department would employ a teacher who denied, say, that base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal; that no physics department would employ a teacher who denied the force of gravity; that no chemistry department would employ a teacher who denied that protons and neutrons are found in the nuclei of atoms; that no biology department would employ a teacher who denied that green plants convert light energy into chemical energy by photosynthesis.

But you know what? Thank God for Ward Churchill!! He is sending sales of our book through the roof, because people can easily see what good academics/scholarship is (us) and isn't (him). Go Ward! Sell more of our book!

[carl in alaska]

Bump for Patriot's History.

[rwfromkansas]

I wasn't going to do so earlier, but I am thinking I may review your book for my college newspaper. Yeah, we do not have many history majors here, but the college paper is printed in the town paper, and I bet the townspeople would be interested in getting your work.

[rwfromkansas]

Churchill doesn't even have a doctorate and is making almost 100 grand, which is outrageous.

"B.A., M.A., Sangaman State University
Communication"

That is shocking. His degree isn't even in anthropology or anything related even slightly to ethnic studies. I will have to let my HG professors know. They only get in the 40 thousand range and that is with doctorates in history. How sick.