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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Last Hired,
First Fired

Kevin Barrett is a just-hired part-time instructor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Maybe Ann Althouse will provide local color for this one.

Barrett's eager to share with his students and the world his personal 9/11 Report, which reveals that the American government did it to create religious armageddon. Or something.

It's ol' Ward all over again, except this guy, Barrett, isn't tenured and will be given the old heave-ho before you know it.

The question with Barrett -- as with Churchill -- has to do with search committees at some of our better universities. Where do the people who choose obvious idiots to teach intelligent university students -- at taxpayer expense -- come from? How do universities produce search committees with these outcomes?