In an application of the old idea that the best defense is a good offense, faculty radicals who like using their classrooms as soapboxes for their political proselytizing have raised the cry of “McCarthyism” against those who have dared to suggest that professors are just supposed to teach the subject matter of their courses. On the National Association of Scholars Online Forum (top post), Professor Herbert London launches a highly effective counterattack against the McCarthyism criers.