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Nas Blog

The National Association of Scholars–the most prominent organization of traditionalist scholars opposed to campus political correctness–has started a blog. Notice that a couple of the entries are signed, while one is anonymous. When I was a grad student, I was afraid to join the NAS for fear that if my membership were discovered, it would destroy my career. So I subscribed to Academic Questions, the NAS journal, but without formally joining. Eventually, I joined the NAS, but made sure it mailings came to me at home, rather than at school. Turns out the local NAS understood all this, and sent its information in envelopes with no organizational identification on the outside. If memory serves, one of the early notorious incidents of political correctness was Stanley Fish’s suggestion that NAS members at Duke be barred from committees deciding on tenure. A blog is an ideal way for isolated and persecuted traditionalist professors to communicate.

Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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