June 3, 2005 - 4:52pm -- Rob Eshelman
"Targeting the University"
Joseph Massad, Al Ahram Weekly
Having usurped political power, the far right has now set its sight on sabotaging the academic world, writes Joseph Massad, an assistant professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University.
Targeting the university is the latest mission of right-wing forces who have hijacked not only political power and political discourse in the United States but also the very vocabulary that can be used against them. The campaign of the last three years or so to attack US universities as the last bastion where a measure of freedom of thought is still protected is engineered to cancel out such freedom and ensure that scholars will not subvert the received political wisdom of the day.
