By Michael McDevittSeveral decades before the Donald Trump administration’s coordinated attacks on universities, the populist right found in Colorado an embodiment of its dangerous professor. The Denver Post reported on Aug. 12, “Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, a controversial symbol of academic freedom and free speech who was fired after comparing 9/11 victims to a notorious Nazi, has died.” My research suggests that Churchill became an object of widespread contempt not so much due to his ideas about motives for 9/11 terrorism, but because of a vigilante politics that has since crystallized across U.S. higher education. Churchill was,...
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