"Horowitz's Academic Hit List"

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Horowitz's Academic Hit List

By ROBERT JENSEN

"...I teach journalism, and in the course of that teaching I regularly discuss how journalists cover controversial topics; it's hard to imagine teaching responsibly without doing that. When appropriate, I have talked in class about how journalists cover war -- explaining that many people around the world believe the U.S. invasion of Iraq violated international law, observing that U.S. journalists in the corporate commercial media rarely write about that, and suggesting reasons for the omission.

There's always a politics to teaching; the choices professors make about what readings to assign and how to approach a subject are influenced by their politics -- left, right, or center. But that does not meaning teaching is nothing but politics.

No one knows that better than professors who hold views challenging the conventional wisdom, those of us who don't rabidly hate the United States but do passionately love learning and the promise of an open, independent university."

Boston University: Howard Zinn
Cal State University, Fresno: Sasan Fayazmanesh
California State University, Long Beach: Ron (Maulana) Karenga
Columbia University: Joseph Massad
De Paul University: Norman Finkelstein
Georgetown University: David Cole
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Noam Chomsky
Montclair State University: Grover Furr
Northeastern University: M. Shahid Alam, Northwestern University:
Occidental College: Tom Hayden
Princeton University: Richard Falk
Rutgers University, Stony Brook: Amiri Baraka
University of California, Santa Cruz: Angela Davis
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Robert McChesney
University of South Florida: Sami al-Arian
University of Texas, Austin: Robert Jensen

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1. That doesn't look like a lot

I figured Horowitz would be among those that figured ANY education whatsoever is "dangerous."

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5. You have to purge academia one step at a time. EOM

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2. Angela Davis, what a surprise. An oldie-but-goldie boogieman/woman

from the Sixties. Timothy Leary probably would have made the cut if he weren't dead.

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3. Self-delete

Misunderstood the list.
Oops...

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4. David Horowitz is a disgusting POS.

I would assume he gets quite a large amount of money from the CIA or other undercover group for his services.

McCarthy would have been proud of his university witch-hunts attacking so-called liberal professors. Lynn Cheney is also involved in his little spy ring, enough said.

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6. I thumbed through his book on "101 Most Dangerous Professors"

or whatever it's called. I broke out laughing when I found certain 'professors' he profiled who were "adjunct lecturer in political science" at some regional campus or some such, hardly anyone who is a real intellectual leader. At any rate, Horowitz is a complete jerk.

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7. If anything

the list sounds like a great reference as far as classes to look into.

Norman Finkelstein was on Democracy Now recently. Pretty interesting guy. Debate about Israel/Palestine.