Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Fight Fire with FIRE

Great new blog from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Excellent sample regarding Ward Churchill:

At FIRE, we have long argued that viewpoint discrimination has negative real-world consequences (and make no mistake, you do not achieve 32-to-1 ideological imbalances without years of viewpoint discrimination in hiring, promotion, and retention). For those of you who continue to doubt this truth—for those who believe that such viewpoint discrimination is an essentially harmless application of departmental academic freedom—I present to you Mr. Ward Churchill, Exhibit A for the consequences of substituting ideology for competence.

Thanks Michelle.