20-12-2014, 02:45 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-12-2014, 05:11 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
CTKA will soon have a long article up about this.
But clearly what happened here is--as my pal Albert Rossi noted-- similar to what Buckley did with D'Souza at Dartmouth in the eighties. And this is why so many think McAdams is a spook.
If you read the entire story in Higher Ed, the student waited until after class to talk to the prof. He taped the conversation on his cell phone. And then lied about it. He then apparently went to McAdams and McAdams wrote it up.
As a teacher and as a student at three universities, this is not a matter of free speech. Classrooms are run at the disgression of the teacher or professor. It has to be that way. He or she then controls how far the discussion goes depending on the good will and maturity of those involved. It seems here that the prof sensed something was up, and so she curtailed the discussion before it got away from her. The proof is what the kid's cohort did after.
I really hope this investigation focuses on McAdams' role in all of these disputes on campus at Marquette. Does he recruit young RW students as provocateurs and informants on campus, thereby running a sort of intel/propaganda ring there? I think that will turn out to be the case if the inquiry is full and unbiased... If so, the guy should be fired. But I hope they go all the way to find out who he was doing it for and with.
We reposted my two articles at CTKA, in which I proposed that looking at the McAdams case through the lens of only JFK was wrong. He has a much wider scope than that and a much wider agenda. He is a destabilization agent who wants to completely eliminate the last vestiges of the liberal state left over by Kennedy.
But clearly what happened here is--as my pal Albert Rossi noted-- similar to what Buckley did with D'Souza at Dartmouth in the eighties. And this is why so many think McAdams is a spook.
If you read the entire story in Higher Ed, the student waited until after class to talk to the prof. He taped the conversation on his cell phone. And then lied about it. He then apparently went to McAdams and McAdams wrote it up.
As a teacher and as a student at three universities, this is not a matter of free speech. Classrooms are run at the disgression of the teacher or professor. It has to be that way. He or she then controls how far the discussion goes depending on the good will and maturity of those involved. It seems here that the prof sensed something was up, and so she curtailed the discussion before it got away from her. The proof is what the kid's cohort did after.
I really hope this investigation focuses on McAdams' role in all of these disputes on campus at Marquette. Does he recruit young RW students as provocateurs and informants on campus, thereby running a sort of intel/propaganda ring there? I think that will turn out to be the case if the inquiry is full and unbiased... If so, the guy should be fired. But I hope they go all the way to find out who he was doing it for and with.
We reposted my two articles at CTKA, in which I proposed that looking at the McAdams case through the lens of only JFK was wrong. He has a much wider scope than that and a much wider agenda. He is a destabilization agent who wants to completely eliminate the last vestiges of the liberal state left over by Kennedy.