The Chronicle Forum

If you haven't read the Chronicle forum on my article, you should, because it's certainly entertaining if nothing else. The thoroughly unhinged comments of Communist Party USA archivist Mark Rosenzweig and other radical leftists provide a far better illustration of why I had to write the article than anything I can say.

To those liberals such as John Berry who have defended my right to speak, you have my gratitude. As for Rosenzweig and company, know simply that I don't give a damn what you say about me. For five years I was silent while you sought to hijack this profession in pursuit of your own far left agenda. No longer. If the price of speaking my mind is to be subjected to the infantile taunts of an aging Stalinist, then so be it. It's nothing I can't handle.