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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Countdown until he's offered position at UC-Berk?
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Politically yes, but I honestly think his "scholarship" is too weak and corrupt. You really can't hire the guy who is widely know to plagiarize and misrepresent his sources even if you love his politics.
One of the things that I think is so interesting about this is it points out how some college professors trade on their academic standing to present opinions completely unrelated to their field of study and some people eat it up. Why would I care what Churchill thinks about 911 or what Chomsky thinks about economic or social policy?
(I'm sure it happens on the right too, but I can't think of anyone right away. I don't think people on the right care that much about college professors as experts, and if the recent hype is true a about ideological imbalance in higher ed, there'd be few right wing college profs to quote. The few right wing college household name that I can think of all seem to be history or sociology folks who write about race, ethnicity and class.)