Monthly Archives: October 2007

  Professor Larudee, assistant professor of international studies This is a press release from the DePaul University Academic Freedom Committee.  {Note: I received this press release on October 31, 2007. The press release neglected to state directly that Dean Chuck Suchar, College of … Continue reading →

The Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society conference at Chicago’s venerable Palmer House was certainly a different venue from my usual academic forays: At dinner Friday night October 26, 2007, I am seated next to Dafna Shaked, an Israeli scholar from … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper of internationalism, non-preemption and progressive cultural relativism linked my posting on the I.U.S. conference at the weekend. It appears at the bottom of their article. It is curious that the article on professor warriors, … Continue reading →

While the Carbondale campus of Southern Illinois University seems to lack a sense of academic integrity in its refusal to demand the firing or resignation of a fraudulent president, the Edwardsville campus has brought honour and distinction to itself. The … Continue reading →

Glenn Poshard claims he was ignorant that a dissertation should not be plagiarised!! This semester I am teaching two courses with considerable research components.  One course is called “Capitalism, Socialism & Social Justice,” and the other is a Senior Seminar: “War, Free … Continue reading →

See DePaul University Academic Freedom Committee student website for downloads. Or click on the Listen Now links below. It were DePaul University students, in the tradition of the Free Speech Movement and Students for a Democratic Society, that galvanised and propelled the staging … Continue reading →

I sent this letter to the Chicago Tribune on Sunday, October 7, 2007 that has not appeared. I believe the reporter publicly owes the authors an apology for this hateful and unseemly example of biased attack-dog reportage. Also there is … Continue reading →

Anecdotally it has been widely known, due to the Israel Lobby’s stultifying efforts to  cripple democracy and free speech,  that it is easier for an academic to criticise Israel in Israel than  in the terrorist, sham-democracy of America. Professor Neve … Continue reading →

  The Chicago Tribune has reported that the great academic fraud, President Glenn Poshard, can retain his position as president of the Southern Illinois University system. Even though a faculty committee verified that the president’s doctoral dissertation was plagiarised and … Continue reading →

In Defense of Academic Freedom 12 October 2007 – 2:00pm – 7:00 pm Rockefeller Chapel, University of Chicago 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 Featuring: Dr. Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Director of The Heyman Center, Columbia … Continue reading →

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University in New York on Monday,  September 24, 2007. I have argued that Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University, should not have preceded the Iranian president with such a hostile and denunciatory introduction. Not all … Continue reading →