In my experience there is a noxious trickle-down effect too, even for those of us radical academics who don't overtly teach or write about "war on terror" (trademark) issues. I recently lost my job at a major state university. More than one of my colleagues (sic) who voted against retaining me explicitly commented that my publishing "activist" articles in "unorthodox" outlets "uneccessarily" puts the department in a vulnerable spot when the administration is wielding the budget-cutting axe.
JLG (anonymous)
Doug Henwood wrote:
>The David Project is making the life miserable of Hamid Dabashi and
>his colleagues in the Columbia Middle Eastern studies department,
>and O'Reilly got that prof in Florida fired, no? And he may knock
>off Churchill too. They're not a sideshow, they're really dangerous.