Winfield Myers: Shedding light on the professoriate - Examiner.com
I believe in academic freedom, but I think it is appropriate that people learned about how politicized the academy has become, and about how one-sided that politicization is. Parents, alumni, and taxpayers foot the bill, so I think they ought to know how their money is being spent.

Academic radicals have for years controlled campus debate by blackballing internal opponents, intimidating students and crying censorship whenever their views or actions were challenged. They got away with such behavior for two principal reasons: A sympathetic media assured the nation that universities were in the front lines of the fight for liberty and justice, and there were few external organizations or individuals offering sustained critiques of politicized scholarship and teaching. These helped ensure that the public’s reservoir of good will toward universities remained full. But times are changing.