Thin-skinned Ivy League Profs Beg for Ad Money

I have a new post at Campus Watch on the effort by pampered, privileged academics at elite universities to raise money for a full-page ad in the New York Times in which they will attack their critics for daring to criticize their work. I quote a solicitation email that is making the rounds among professors and will keep my eye on the Times to see if they're successful. If they're not, will that mean that they're being censored?

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The email below, which is circulating among academics, solicits contributions for a full-page ad in the New York Times by the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University to attack external critics of academe in the "newspaper of record." (Inquiring readers will want to know: will the Times cut them a deal the way they did Moveon.org? Same politics, same "worthy cause." Stay tuned.)

If you sign the petition and they raise enough money, you can get your name in the paper! Cool. And you won't have to die first or commit a crime.

The Ad Hocs are upset--terribly so--that their fellow citizens (that includes nationalist Americans as well as Citizens of the World) refuse to swallow everything they say or write and, worse, actually engage in criticism of their work. Quelle horreur! Next thing you know, people will be saying nasty things about the president, the pope, and the queen.

Clearly, such signs of disrespect for one's intellectual and social superiors must be stopped! A new battle-cry rises from the ramparts: Respect Thin-skinned People! Hush Your Mouth!

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