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A Contradiction in Terms
By Roger W. Bowen
In several public debates that I have had with David
Horowitz, I have learned not only about his intelligent passion for
the cause he espouses, but also about how poorly informed he is on such
subjects as academic common law, academic culture, tenure, shared
governance, and academic due process.
I also have learned from these debates that he sees no contradiction
between advocating for more government control of higher education and
promoting the free marketplace of ideas, between his own strict
partisanship and his decrying the alleged political slant of faculty,
between his putative high regard for the American Association of
University Professors' 1915Declaration of Principles on Academic
Freedom and Academic Tenure and his ignorance of its content, or
between his acknowledgment that he does not want the academy politicized
and his obvious efforts to inject partisan politics into higher
education. . . .
Excerpted from the spring 2006 issue of The Presidency.
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