Max Blumenthal: An Evening With David Horowitz and Ward Churchill

As poorly as David Horowitz performed in his debate last Thursday at George Washington University against Colorado University's Ward Churchill, he still won. The fact that hundreds of people would gather on the campus of a major university to watch a serious debate on the merits of a bill as insane as Horowitz's "Academic Bill of Rights," which would allow students to sue their professors and mandate the hiring of one right-wing professor for each professor who assigns supposedly left-wing material, was a victory in itself for the right's favorite red diaper baby.

The debate (audio here) was promoted and staged safely within the right's intellectual hothouse by Young Americans for Freedom, ensuring that at least most of the crowd would give serious consideration to Horowitz's conspiratorial maledictions against academia. "The education schools today teach social justice, which is a code for socialism or communism," Horowitz declared. "The social work department... is about an indictment of free market capitalism."