September 9, 2005

The New McCarthyism

By JONATHAN R. COLE

A rising tide of anti-intellectualism and intolerance of university research and teaching that offends ideologues and today's ruling prince is putting academic freedom -- one of the core values of the university -- under more sustained and subtle attack than at any time since the dark days of McCarthyism in the 1950s.

As professors are publicly savaged for their ideas, often by outside groups, colleges are coming under pressure to fire them or control what they say in the

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