George Ciccariello-Maher Resigns: “We are all a single outrage campaign away from having no rights at all.”

BY HANK REICHMAN George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University, has resigned his tenured position.  In an announcement on Twitter posted today, Ciccariello-Maher wrote, “after nearly a year of harassment by right-wing, white supremacist media outlets and internet mobs, after death threats and threats of violence directed against me and…

On Missing the Point About Academic Freedom and Free Speech

BY HANK REICHMAN Not long after I posted an item on the shouting down of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra by pro-Trump protesters at Whittier College, I stumbled across one of the more sanctimonious and misguided pieces I’ve yet encountered about the current free speech battles on college and university campuses.  In “Left-Wing Drexel Professor…

Academic Freedom Again

BY MICHAEL MERANZE The following guest post by UCLA history professor Michael Meranze is reposted from his Remaking the University blog. As you have probably seen, George Ciccariello-Maher, a political scientist at Drexel University has come under fire for tweeting “all I want for Christmas is white genocide,” following his tweet and his condemnation at…

Drexel Must Defend Academic Freedom

BY HANK REICHMAN “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”  That was the content of a tweet posted Christmas eve by George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of politics and global studies at Drexel University.  Ciccariello-Maher was trying to make an ironic political point and was not in fact calling for mass killing, but that didn’t…