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Academic Politics Gone Wild and Ward Churchill’s “Grand Slam”

“That was a grand slam. I got everything I wanted from them,” he [Ward Churchill] said Friday. “I wasn’t looking for money.” (source) While still celebrating the victory of Ward Churchill, and victory for academic freedom of speech, we can look forward to the prospect of Ward Churchill being reinstated at the University of Colorado. […]

Ward Churchill’s Court Victory: Benjamin Whitmer, Eric Verlo, Michael Roberts, and Juror Bethany Newill

In a group consisting of more than two dozen newspaper reports, plus about three dozen posts by different blogs, on Ward Churchill’s victory in court yesterday evening, (see The Ward Churchill Trial‘s list of newspaper reports, as a start, and the list of blog postings), four items in particular stood out for me. La haine […]

Ward Churchill v. “The Good Americans”: How Churchill’s Critics Made His Case

“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed . . . without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., April 1967, Riverside, California. While I am not prepared to predict the outcome of […]