Victor David Hanson, the neo-con's neocon, argues in today's Washington Times that tenure is a terribly dangerous thing that threatens our susceptible youth while making slaves of part-time "adjunct" instructors who do all the work of profs without the compensation.
Instead of tenure, he suggests five-year renewable agreements "outlining in detail teaching and scholarly expectations" so as to achieve a "better-educated student" and a "more intellectually diverse and independent-thinking faculty."
Translation: We need government implementation of David "Uncle Joe" Horowitz's long neo-con march through the (academic) institutions to ensure a "balanced" (99-1 neo-con) faculty on academic campuses.
The problems with the modern American university are too numerous to begin to discuss here. But what is important is to see the neo-con plan in front of us, which couches a Marxist-Leninist attack in vaguely conservative terms and thereby hoodwinks the conservatives into supporting that which is blatantly revolutionary.
Of course, it is difficult to feel sorry for the disaster that much of the American university system has become. A deal made with the devil to turn 99.9 percent of these institutions into an arm of the state has already decimated academic freedom. So they have not much of a leg to stand on. Ultimately, as we know, real academic freedom would be freedom from the state, after which tenure would be a private contract between employer and employee and the VDH's of the world could sod off back to their bunkers.
Funny how silent the VDHs of the world were when Prof. Hoppe was under attack by the "Left."
