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It sounds like Professor Jeneault did a great job protecting faculty at her school. But from my experience with the AAUP, their national leadership does nothing to protect adjunct faculty. I would not recommend joining the AAUP.
Everything Professor Schrecker says is true about contemporary American colleges. I know from experience what she says is true about diminishing opportunities to teach and earn a living and to freely engage in dialogue on a range of issues in many colleges. What is false is that the AAUP will protect its members from gross violations of Academic Freedom and being forced by administrators to compromise the integrity of the grading system. I was fired from my position at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas, for discussing a range of perspectives on controversial issues related to economics. I was also directly told to pass more students no matter whether they could master the material or even show up to take the tests. When I did not comply, I was fired. When I appealed to AAUP, which I am a member of, Gregory Scholtz wrote me back informing me that he would do NOTHING to investigate TCC. He simply told me to find another job. AAUP's claim to protecting Academic Freedom is a bold faced lie.
Put another way, Nancy MacLean is not trying to win an argument. She's trying to kill an argument. She doesn't like Jim Buchanan's intellectual school of Public Choice Economics, but she has no arguments against it. She can't win the debate, so she wants to cancel it with a charge of racism. Despicable. Vile. Evil. This kind of anti-liberal spirit and mentality is just as much an enemy of civilized intellectual inquiry as any of the antics of a buffoon like Donald Trump.
Nancy MacLean claims to know a lot about the struggle against segregation. Does she remember the inquisitorial, guilt-by-association tactics of Senator Joe MacCarthy? Because she is his spiritual heir. Convinced that she knows the heart of Jim Buchanan, she feels entitled to fabricate evidence against him and when challenged to support her "facts" responds indignantly that "they were all just rightwing Southern segregationists!" so in other words, she claims to be exempt from the standards not only of academic evidence and but also legal norms concerning what constitutes slander and libel. She deserves to be exposed in the most public possible manner as the fraud that she is and those like the AAUP Bookclub and prominent people on the left like Joe Stiglitz who have swallowed and culpably repeated her lies along with her. Her approach to the truth is actually quite similar to that of Donald J. Trump, only difference being that she hides behind a veneer of academic sophistication and her credentials lend weight to her lies among those disposed to believe any evil whatsoever of those whom they disagree with. Apparently, the AAUP Bookclub consists of such people, people who like MacLean do not have the intellectual substance to cross swords with a pioneer of political economy like Jim Buchanan on an even intellectual playing field and who therefore yearn for an irrelevant reductionist narrative about race garnished with a pack of lies that will allow them to just declare victory instead of doing real intellectual battle.
I can understand why Nancy MacLean would be upset at historian Phil Magness. I would be upset if someone published a spreadsheet listing 77 separate and distinct errors in a major book I wrote, many of them quite significant. But her understandable anger doesn't justify ignoring heavily documented and significant errors. I wish she'd seriously address at least some of them. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GxvYCKp9hxU9bAGVCMB6FIroBhs1O8a_UbaeO5voJRg/edit#gid=328911671
Here's an article from Nancy MacLean about historical precedents for attacks by the radical right on higher education: www.aaup.org/article/world-gone-mad
Very good ideals - though I note this video is from 2010, and to the best of my knowledge things have only become worse, not better, in academia since then.
