The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America
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The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America is a 2006 book by conservative American author and columnist David Horowitz.
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Argument
Horowitz argues that U.S. universities are permeated by anti-Americanism and a left-wing bias. The academics described in The Professors are allegedly the worst offenders, but also only the tip of the iceberg. The bookflap says, "We all know that left-wing radicals from the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But if you thought they were all harmless, antiquated hippies, you'd be wrong. Today's radical academics aren't the exception—they're legion. And far from being harmless, they spew violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians—all the while collecting tax dollars and tuition fees to indoctrinate our children." Horowitz extensively quotes from the professors concerned, and argues that two controversies involving Lawrence Summers of Harvard show that the administrators dare not challenge the radicals.
Response
The book was seen as a McCarthy-like blacklist by some, and was denounced by Free Exchange on Campus, a coalition of organizations that includes the American Association of University Professors, the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Federation of Teachers, Campus Progress, the Center for American Progress, the Center for Campus Free Speech, the National Association of State PIRGs, the National Education Association, People for the American Way Foundation, and the United States Student Association. Many of the professors included on the list also issued responses ranging from pride of being included, to criticism of Horowitz.
The list
- Arcadia University: Warren Haffar
- Ball State University: George Wolfe
- Baylor University: Marc H. Ellis
- Boston University: Howard Zinn
- Brandeis University: Gordon Fellman, Dessima Williams
- Brooklyn College: Priya Parmar, Timothy Shortell
- California 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
- 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 D. Cole, John Esposito, Yvonne Haddad, Mari Matsuda
- Holy Cross College: Jerry Lembcke
- Kent State University: Patrick Coy
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Noam Chomsky
- Metropolitan State College of 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 Brumfiel, Bernardine Dohrn
- Occidental College: Tom Hayden
- Penn State University: Michael Bérubé, Sam Richards
- Princeton University: Richard Falk
- Purdue University: Harry Targ
- Rochester Institute of Technology: Thomas Castellano
- Rutgers University: H. Bruce Franklin, Michael Warner
- San Francisco State University: Anatole Anton
- Saint Xavier University: Peter N. Kirstein
- Stanford University: Joel Beinin, Paul R. 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: Amiri Baraka, 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 LeVine
- 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: Alison Jaggar, Emma Perez
- University of Dayton: Mark Ensalaco
- University of Denver: Dean Saitta
- University of Hawaii at Manoa: Haunani-Kay Trask
- University of Illinois at Chicago: Bill Ayers
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Robert McChesney
- University of Kentucky: Ihsan Bagby
- University of Michigan: Juan Cole, Gayle Rubin
- University of Northern Colorado: Robert Dunkley
- University of Oregon: 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 at Arlington: Jose Angel Gutierrez
- University of Texas at Austin: Dana Cloud, Robert Jensen
- University of Washington: David Barash
- Villanova University: Rick Eckstein, Suzanne Toton
- West Chester University: Lawrence Davidson
- Western Washington University: Larry Estrada
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