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Members of the Ivory Tower, some of whom remain ardent Marxists themselves, maintain that McCarthyite “hysteria” suppressed free expression in the 1950s and led to the unjustified blacklisting of those with socialist sentiments.

Just as students sporting t-shirts of Che Guevara are often ignorant of his bloody revolutionary record, so too it seems that champions of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade suffer from a peculiar form of “historical amnesia” promoted by academics and activists alike.

January 20th is Inauguration Day for President Barack Obama, and Professor Andrew William Smith will certainly be among those celebrating this historic occasion.

Professor Walter Benn Michaels recently argued that teaching social justice to rich students was hypocritical in the face of ongoing economic disparities between college students and the poorer populations who, he asserts, can’t get access to these schools.

When critiquing modern religion, two English professors prefer to characterize faith as a blight on society.

A professor emerita at Stanford University, Marjorie Gabrielle Perloff dedicated the majority of her 20-minute speech to commenting on Barack Obama’s highly electable character and his autobiography.

The new chancellor at the University of Colorado at Boulder is trying to diversify the campus…with a conservative.

Shakespeare’s commentary on science and society was so profound that the famous author Aldous Huxley copied themes wholesale from the Tempest in order to construct the American dystopian classic A Brave World.

If all academic writing became infused with the “excitement” of Butler’s work, many outside the field would probably fail to recognize the change.

“The 1990’s witnessed a major transformation in the discourse of theory, with the rise of new figures, a shift in the works of others, and a new sexuality,” said University of Florida Professor Phillip Wegner.

The victim-oppressor dialectic of Marxist doctrine has long since penetrated the university, leading to both classes on Karl Marx and the inclusion of Marxist literary theory in the curriculum.

In a new twist on criminal sympathy, Professor April Miller argued that murder may serve as a means of female resistance against the “patriarchal machinery” that is the law.