Jack Balkin on Michael Drake's feeble defense of his decision to fire Erwin Chemerinsky for transparently political reasons:Nothing Drake says sheds much light on why it would be reasonable for him to act as he did. Indeed, he only creates greater suspicion that the reasons...
academic freedom
From someone at CU:The one thing that makes me feel OK about this, is that our faculty peers have found him [Ward Churchill] guilty of academic misconduct serious enough to.
Like ogged, I wasn't sure how to respond to the news that Norman Finklestein has been denied tenure at DePaul (an issue I read a fair amount about when I.
John Holbo links to the dispute between Scott Kaufman and a commenter at Jesus' General. Long story short, a disagreement in comments at JG escalated into a full broadside denunciation of Scott as a white supremacist to his employers at UCI. Not satisfied with a...
Obviously, I agree entirely with the substance of Paul Campos's reply to Glenn Reynolds's attempts to defend illegal and counterproductive assassinations. Since it came up in comments too, I should.