November 5, 2006

Ron links to the Bruce Andrews appearance (current now) on "The O'Reilly Factor;" this is truly frightening and so very over the top anti-academic freedom, as I guess is to be expected considering the source. Bill O'Reilly selects Andrews' syllabus at Fordham as his "Outrage of the Week" on the basis that the course isn't presenting "a pro-capitalist point of view" as if that were the only becnhmark to judge a class in foreign policy.

I guess the Department Head and Division Dean and University President and the Board of Trustees and every other filter in place to make sure students are getting a good education at Fordham Univ. (like Fordham's accreditors) forgot to take this singular criterion into consideration.