https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/12/31/an-ecofeminist-does-milk/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 23:31:16 -0400<![CDATA[The American Studies Association has been much in the news lately for backing an “academic boycott” of Israel.  That disgusting display of politically correct, anti-Semitic grandstanding has garnered the ASA some small portion of the obloquy it deserves.  As my PJM colleague Ronald Radosh pointed out here, the ASA picked on “the Middle East’s only existing democracy to protest.” The ASA’s obtuse and juvenile leftism has even embarrassed other elements of the academy: MIT recently joined Yale, Harvard, Brown, Brandeis, and other elite institutions in condemning the boycott, which, as MIT President L. Rafael Reif noted, “fundamentally violates the principles of academic freedom that are central to the excellence of MIT and American higher education.”]]>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:59:59 -0500<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2013/12/31/an-ecofeminist-does-milk-n117707