THE BENEDICT ARNOLD CHAIR OF ETHICS: Sounds silly, doesn’t it? But as Roger Kimball writes, “what about the Alger Hiss Professor of Social Studies? Wander on up to Bard College at picturesque Annandale on Hudson and you can meet him in person.” Kimball adds:
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The love affair with Communism among American academics isn’t over, though at many institutions it has migrated into the polysyllabic Leftism of the terminally disaffected.
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UPDATE: I don’t know which is worse–the Hiss chair or the American Historical Association honoring the left’s favorite ex-Klansman.
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