Monthly Archives: May 2007

President Hank Brown has quite predictably recommended that the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) fire me – not, he claims, because of my constitutionally protected statements about 9/11 but because of my scholarship. However, as hundreds of academics … Continue reading →

Peace is better than War. War needs to be challenged as guarantor of peace. The Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, a leading organization of “defence intellectuals,” strategic planners, military scholars, academicians who teach withing the military educational … Continue reading →

Dave Newbart wrote an article on DePaul University political science Professor Norman G. Finkelstein’s tenure case. I submitted a letter that appeared headed for publication but was later rejected. The reporter contacted me to explain his views. I appreciate the … Continue reading →

This was the letter I had sent to the Chicago Sun-Times in response to Dave Newbart’s article on the Norman Finkelstein tenure case: I would like to take strong exception to the editorializing in Dave Newbart’s article on “Tenure and … Continue reading →

The Chicago-Sun Times ran a story today on the Finkelstein tenure case. I present my reaction, excerpts and a link to the story. {Let us hope that DePaul University, as the article suggests, indeed resents external efforts to influence its … Continue reading →

Today Friday May 11, 2007 DePaul University’s Tenure and Promotion Committee will meet to vote on Norman Finkelstein’s tenure case.

This is the Chicago Tribune story: I quoted an e-mail from DePaul University President Rev. Dennis Holtschneider at the end of the story that strongly suggests that DePaul University will not be intimidated by vicious, arrogant enemies of academic freedom … Continue reading →

I do not agree with DePaul University political science Professor Norman G. Finkelstein’s assessment of the generally protected status of academic freedom in the U.S. He is too modest in stressing the uniqueness of his case although he concedes he … Continue reading →

Raul Hilberg the dean of historians on the history of the holocaust has frequently demonstrated his courage and toleration of dissent. When David Irving’s important book on Goebbels was censored by the armies of the night–censors of those who defy … Continue reading →

David Horowitz, the erstwhile, radical leftist now conservative crusader against the “radical,” professorial presence in the Humanities and Social Sciences, does occasionally respond to legitimate criticism. A quality frankly some on the left eschew. I had taken some umbrage in … Continue reading →