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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
The Trotskyite FrontPageMagazine.com last week published an attack on the 9/11 course offered at North Carolina Wesleyan College which uses Libertythink.com as part of its syllabus. The piece, written by some neocon dork, offers only one academic cite to support his condemnation of the course -- from a cartoon character on The Simpsons who has a fake Ph.D. The rest of the article, such as it is, just lists topics on the syllabus and different websites, interlaced with condemnation bereft of supporting argument or context or any critical thinking whatsoever.
Just a taste of the April 18, 2005 article:
I write a monthly column in North Carolina entitled "Course of the Month", which acts as a Golden Fleece Award for ridiculous courses taught in this state's colleges and universities. Sometimes I decide a course is too deserving of attention to keep it within the confines of North Carolina. The course I am about to describe is not only worthy of such an honor, but, in my view, it ascends to the top of all the crackpot courses I've written about since 1996.This tool was on the Alex Jones show yesterday, where he ignored every pointed question of substance, from Strauss to Trotsky to the Grove. He claimed to have training in economics but said it was just a magical coincidence that people in high governmental positions and their cronies make money off of wars and the police state. He must not have studied public choice economics, which simply looks at self-interest in public-sector decision making as well as the private sector. I.e., if a widgets firm tries to sell as many widgets it can in the private, free market; the once and future revolving-door widget CEOs, both in and out of government, will also work to guarantee a market in the public sector. (And if the widgets in question are tools of the war machine and the surveillance state, yes, those rigged, guaranteed markets can be set up between bouts of owl-worship.)
If you think the Bush administration planned the 9/11 attacks to give it an excuse to wage war for global domination, that a Jewish cabal controls world events, that President Eisenhower was abducted by aliens, and that he, Nixon, Reagan and the Bushes go off to a remote California location to practice owl worship, then you'll disagree with my assessment. The rest of you, I'm confident, will say move over, "Canine Cultural Studies" -- and make way for North Carolina Wesleyan College's Political Science 495: "911 The Road to Tyranny," taught by Prof. Jane Christensen.
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[The syllabus] reminds me of the "Brad Goodman" character on an old episode of "The Simpsons." He was a feel-good self-help guru and charlatan who proudly told his audiences, "I don't have any credentials -- or training -- but I have a Ph.D. in pain." By the same token, this course doesn't have political science -- or a scientific approach -- but it has a Ph.D. in kooky conspiracy-mongering.
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