Oh, and Cockburn “wears his learning more lightly” because that old Stalinist managed to ignore all negative reports about Communism until the Wall came crashing down in 1989. It was fun reading him then. He was in a very sour mood for quite some time. The proles were not following the script.

Fortunately for Cockburn, collectivist thinking never lost its appeal among our intellectual “elites” and so he still has a job.

Really, are you saying Crowley – a man who has taught classes on racial profiling and has been universally praised by his colleagues, including *ahem* “persons of color,” – needs to be lectured to by Gates? Should Crowley run laps around a cotton field in Alabama to pay for sins he did not commit?

Your analogy is so stupid I can only assume you teach at an Ivy League university.