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By Professor Doom      The culture of fear in higher education is quite remarkable. Publicly, we�re told we have freedom of speech and academic freedom, but the reality is quite clear that faculty are only free to talk about certain things, publicly or academically.      And so we come to the latest firing for a professor saying the wrong thing : Oberlin College has dismissed Joy Karega, an assistant professor of rhetoric and composition, following an investigation into anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements she made on social media      Weird, we�re so terrified right now of so many harsh words�but so unconcerned about rioters in the streets. It strikes me as irrational, but for the sake of argument, what horrible anti-Semitic things did she say? ��her assertion that ISIS is really an arm of Israeli and U.S. intelligence agencies and that Israel was behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris��      Huh....

By Professor Doom      So often I�ve quoted Poo Bahs in Higher Ed bragging about how they�re going to make education worse, to make it harder for students to actually gain something from university, that I can understand why a reader might think that�s the only thing Poo Bahs do. Granted, it�s what most Poo Bahs do, but I highlight when one of our �leaders� of higher ed actually shows some leadership (happens about once a year, mind you, but it does happen).       Oklahoma Wesleyan is a relatively small religious school, with some 1200 students and a motto of �A university where Jesus is Lord.� With that kind of motto, you�d think a student would rather accept there�s going to be a bit of preaching on campus. Naturally, a student complained about a sermon: :�a student complained about a sermon that made him feel guilty and blamed the school for making students feel uncomfortable��        Yeah, no kidding, the pr...

By Professor Doom      The Trump election, a repudiation of a few of the lies which have been the foundation of our recent culture, is certainly something�but it�s not a complete solution.      Our campuses in particular seem bent on enforcing the lies; there are many reports that these places are hotbeds of resistance to the �Trump repudiation,� and go so far as to provide coloring books and Play-Doh to the college students �suffering� from being exposed to the idea that reality may not be as the safe space of campus presents it.      The big reason for this is the strong left-wing bias of administration. Administrators punish conservative faculty , restrict and harass conservative student groups , and keep conservative speakers from presenting ideas on campus . This prevents students from ever learning of any other way to think but one, the one that is strongly encouraged on campus.       Socialism i...