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"These days, I suspect, the source of repression is as likely to be private donors as public authorities - hardly an improvement." Not just these days. Back in the days of McCarthyism, some of the university professors got purged through the joint efforts of private donors and the Federal government. Such was apparently the case with the leftist philosopher Barrows Dunham who had been a professor and department chairman at Temple University, after he had a falling out with the pharmaceutical entrepreneur and art collector, Albert C. Barnes, of Philadelphia. Originally, Dunham had been on good terms with Dr. Barnes. When Barnes hired Bertrand Russell (who was unable to land any sort of an academic position in either the US or UK) to lecture at the Barnes Foundation, Professor Dunham sent Dr. Barnes a letter praising this decision as a bold statement on behalf of free speech. However, not too long afterwards, Barnes had a falling out with Russell. He had engaged Russell to deliver a series of lectures on the history of Western philosophy (which would become the basis for Russell's bestselling book, The History of Western Philosophy). Barnes had become irked by Russell's wife who insisted on being called Lady Russell, and Barnes took exception to her habit of knitting in the lecture hall, while her husband was lecturing. Barnes eventually fired Russell. Barrows Dunhams wrote a letter to the press protesting this decision. That angered Barnes who fingered Dunham to the FBI. That eventually led to Barrows Dunham being called to testify before the HUAC. Professor Dunham would only provide the HUAC with his name, date of birth and other very basic information, but otherwise refused to testify. He was cited for contempt of Congress, and was then fired by Temple University. http://ojs.libraries.psu.edu/index.php/pmhb/article/download/43963/43684 Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant http://www.foxymath.com Learn or Review Basic Math ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Joseph Catron <jncat...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Academia Under the Influence Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:25:59 +0200 ____________________________________________________________ LifeLock® Services 24/7 Credit Fraud Monitoring Plan. Proactive Credit Fraud Protection. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5330cdfdf20af4dfd7d97st04vuc ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
