David Horowitz Includes Professor Kirstein as one of 101 Most Dangerous Professors.
See a more comprehensive response to my being labeled “Dangerous” in the book that profiles leftist professors who are severely criticised by the author.
Why I am described as “dangerous” is somewhat puzzling to me. After all I merely call for a communist America. Is that dangerous, unpatriotic or an intemperate display of political incorrectness? I am antiwar. Is that position contrary to the national interest? Or is it patriotically incorrect that is contrary to certain elite power maximers’ interest?
David Horowitz, with whom I will be debating the Iraq War on March 29 in Chicago, has released a book that allegedly identifies the 101 most dangerous professors in the United States: The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics. Somewhat reminiscent of the McCarthy Era’s Red Channels blacklist, I am included in this most wanted list. We are also labeled the “worst” in a cover promo by Laura Ingraham!
I was initially informed of my inclusion in this work by Doctor Roger Bowen, the distinguished General Secretary of the A.A.U.P. I have responded seriatim on my blog and have linked some of the additional commentary above. It is yet another effort to discredit progressive professors who are not ideologically compatible with the conservative weltaunschaung of editor, journalist and author David Horowitz.
If any of the professors listed here prefer I not reproduce their names, kindly e-mail me at kirstein@sxu.edu. Yet at this point there has been considerable dissemination of the “dangerous” professors list. I suspect most of the Horowitz 101, however, are either pleased or insouciant about their inclusion on a blacklist, or academic-vilification list. This genre commenced in the early Bush era with Daniel Pipes’s despicable and unseemly Campus Watch.
Arcadia University: Warren Haffar
Ball State University: George Wolfe
Baylor University: Marc Ellis
Boston University: Howard Zinn
Brandeis University: Gordon Fellman, Dessima Williams
Brooklyn College: Priya Parmar, Timothy Shortell
Cal State University, Fresno: Sasan Fayazmanesh
California State University, Long Beach: Ron (Maulana) Karenga
City University of New York: Stanley Aronowitz, bell hooks, Leonard
Jeffries, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
College of the Holy Cross : Jerry Lembcke
Columbia University: Lisa Anderson, Gil Anidjar, Hamid Dabashi, Nicholas De Genova, Eric Foner, Todd Gitlin, Manning Marable, Joseph Massad, Victor Navasky
Cornell University: Matthew Evangelista
De Paul University: Norman Finkelstein, Aminah Beverly McCloud
Duke University: Miriam Cooke, Frederic Jameson
Earlham College: Caroline Higgins
Emory University: Kathleen Cleaver
Foothill College: Leighton Armitage
Georgetown University: David Cole, John Esposito, Yvonne Haddad, Mari Matsuda
Kent State University: Patrick Coy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Noam Chomsky
Metropolitan State College, Denver: Oneida Meranto
Montclair State University: Grover Furr
New York University: Derrick Bell
North Carolina State University: Gregory Dawes
Northeastern University: M. Shahid Alam,
Northwestern University: Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, Bernardine Dohrn
Occidental College: Tom Hayden
Penn State University: Michael Berube, Sam Richards
Princeton University: Richard Falk
Purdue University: Harry Targ
Rochester Institute of Technology: Thomas Castellano
Rutgers University: H. Bruce Franklin, Michael Warner
Rutgers University, Stony Brook: Amiri Baraka
San Francisco State University: Anatole Anton
Saint Xavier University: Peter N. Kirstein
Stanford University: Joel Beinin, Paul Ehrlich
State University of New York, Binghamton: Ali al-Mazrui
State University of New York, Buffalo: James Holstun
State University of New York, Stony Brook: Michael Schwartz
Syracuse University: Greg Thomas
Temple University: Melissa Gilbert, Lewis Gordon
Texas A&M University: Joe Feagin
Truman State University: Marc Becker
University of California, Berkeley: Hamid Algar, Hatem Bazian, Orville Schell
University of California, Irvine: Mark Le Vine
University of California, Los Angeles: Vinay Lal
University of California, Riverside: Armando Navarro
University of California, Santa Cruz: Bettina Aptheker, Angela Davis
University of Cincinnati: Marvin Berlowitz
University of Colorado, Boulder: Ward Churchill, Alison Jaggar, Emma Perez
University of Dayton: Mark Ensalaco
University of Denver: Dean Saitta
University of Hawaii, Manoa: Haunani-Kay Trask
University of Illinois, Chicago: Bill Ayers
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Robert McChesney
University of Kentucky: Ihsan Bagby
University of Michigan: Juan Cole
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Gayle Rubin
University of Northern Colorado: Robert Dunkley
University of Oregon, Eugene: John Bellamy Foster
University of Pennsylvania: Regina Austin, Mary Frances Berry, Michael Eric Dyson
University of Rhode Island: Michael Vocino
University of South Florida: Sami al-Arian
University of Southern California: Laurie Brand
University of Texas, Arlington: Jose Angel Gutierrez
University of Texas, Austin: Dana Cloud, Robert Jensen
University of Washington: David Barash
Villanova University: Rick Eckstein, Suzanne Toton
Western Washington University: Larry Estrada