From a reader:

Mr. Goldberg,
Sir, you are not being Machiavellian enough. There’s no point in applying Machiavellian principles to academia in isolation. You don’t want more conservative scholars per se, you want more because they’re good for conservatism. But here, Churchill is great. Think about it: imagine that someone wanted to defend the arguments of a hypothetical Middle Eastern scholar, and said something to the effect that he must be right because he’s a tenured professor at a respectable university, Churchill allows you to point out that you can be a liberal nutjob and get tenure. Take him away, and whatever the benefits to conservative scholars, non-academics will have his removal thrown in their faces — “See? Republicans really don’t care about free speech!” Conservative intellectuals are winning battles (hell, they’re the only ones who’ve tried to take new territory since the Beatles broke up), and liberal intellectuals have a Churchill shaped albatross around their necks. Don’t mess that up.