Hasn’t anyone made the comparison. Larry Summers is one of America’s most esteemed economists and the former Secretary of the Treasury. At a closed door free-for all confab among scholars at which everyone was encouraged to think unconventionally he gave a talk in which he said their might be some innate differences between the sexes. A noted activist female academic in the room quite literally got the vapors and had to hie to her fainting couch — or the Today Show, whichever came first. NOW demanded he resign. He was called a Nazi. One hundred members of the faculty called for his mortification through nonstop apology. Etc etc.

War Churchill, has no PhD. He allegedly has made up his Indian ethnicity to game the system here and abroad. His scholarship is next to non-existent and he makes his way through life saying appalling and idiotic things to make money from the controversy.

And yet, the liberals who email me on this are frightened by what the Ward Churchill backlash says about academic freedom of speech in this country.