BY MARTIN KICH This is the lead item in a news item from the Far-Right media site World Net Daily: If you cannot read the line right before “Read More,” it says: “Finally someone with all-American blood has the guts to stand up against government orders.” Decades ago, when I spent more time on barstools,…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In an article published on Saturday evening by the Washington Post, Dan Baltz has much more thoroughly presented basically the same case that I was attempting to make in my post from last Friday. Here are some selected passages from the beginning of Baltz’s article: The government’s halting response to the coronavirus pandemic…
BY MARTIN KICH When Donald Trump began to form his Cabinet, it became clear almost immediately that one of the main criteria for leading a department would be a history of publicly expressed antipathy toward that department. Thus, Rick Perry became the Energy Secretary. Ben Carson was named the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH We emphasize to our students that critical thinking is not just an advantage but a necessity in our increasingly complex world. But these sorts of juxtapositions, which have become commonplace online each and every day, really require something much more basic than critical thinking. In fact, discussing them as…
BY MARTIN KICH Last January and February when our CB chapter was on strike for three weeks, we received support from across the state of Ohio and the nation. (The many statements of support are archived on our chapter website. See https://aaup-wsu.org/support-for-aaup-wsu/.) That support included statements of solidarity issued by the leaders of other labor…
BY JOAN WALLACH SCOTT Joan Wallach Scott is Professor Emerita of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and a member of AAUP Committee A. These remarks were delivered at a panel on “Academic Freedom and the Historical Profession” at the annual conference of the American Historical Association in New York on January 6. …
BY AARON BARLOW At one point in North by Northwest, Leo G. Carroll’s character The Professor says “It’s so horribly sad. Why is it I feel like laughing?” Of course, he isn’t really a professor but is an intelligence agent. But this professor had exactly that reaction this morning on reading in The Guardian about…