Stephen Yates’s touching story about a North Carolina history teacher Jack Perdue, who was professionally ruined and "murdered by the media" for lecturing in a junior college about North Carolina’s "second war of independence," brought to mind a problem that paleo educators are now increasingly facing. What there is of a conservative movement, which by now is coextensive with what used to be the "democratic Left" during my youth, is not likely to care about anyone like poor Jack Perdue. That movement has its own understanding of who is being denied academic freedom: e.g., Orthodox Jewish students who shout Yiddish … Continue reading Beating the Neocons at Their Own Game