On Sep 9, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
> ... Since right-wing critics like Horowitz focus so much on left-
> wing English departments, it is appropriate that Michael Bérubé,
> who teaches literature at Penn State, has become Horowitz's most
> engaged critic. In "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?" Bérubé
> comes off as spunky, likable and anything but a left-wing extremist
> — you won't find him defending the truth-telling courage of Ward
> Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who referred to
> 9/11 victims as "little Eichmanns" — and he convinces me that
> Horowitz is as unpleasant as he is ungracious. But he does not
> persuade me that Horowitz is wrong. I've taught in at least two
> universities known for their leftism, and I know full well that
> those who teach at them strenuously opppose hiring conservatives
> and treat students who venerate the military, for example, as
> misguided. Were Horowitz not in fact intent on replacing left-wing
> thought police with their right-wing equivalent, I would applaud
> his efforts.
This is what happens to former Marxists who repent. And, according to someone who knows Wolfe, he also feels guilty for having dis'd the suburbs during his radical days, and now lives in someplace like Scarsdale.
Doug