Apparently he has single-handedly caused Princeton to “tilt right.” Max Blumenthal’s hit piece is the most hackish work I’ve read in a long time, but his McCarthyism will probably boost fundraising for George’s Madison Program. An example: Blumenthal spends a lot of time trying to prove that George is dissembling about the extent to which the Madison Program arose in reaction to Peter Singer’s appointment to the Princeton faculty. None of the supposedly damning quotes Blumenthal trots out establishes what he thinks it does. It may be true that the program “benefited” from the controversy over Singer without its being true that George “milked” the controversy when hitting up donors. Blumenthal provides exactly no evidence of any “milking” or that George even mentioned the Singer affair to donors. And, really, why would it have mattered if George had “milked” it? What’s the problem here? There’s neither a crime nor a cover-up.