[Paleo Conservative]

Was this a tenure/tenure-track job? If so, like it or not, you are REQUIRED to publish. People here can complain about it, but it is a fact of university life.

But if you publish something that is politically incorrect even if it is a serious academic article in a peer reviewed journal, your job could be at risk.

[george76]

Ward published others work as if it was his own.

Ward footnoted himself...

Ward made lots of stuff up that never happened and that he could not footnote.

Thus he met the CU standards for tenure ?

/s

[LS]

Well, it really doesn't work that way, and the main reason is that it's darn near impossible to publish anything "politically incorrect" in such journals.

But I've published more than 40 articles, 75 book reviews, and 25 books, many with respected university presses, and haven't ever had a problem.

What really happens is this: the nature of much (not all) research in the humanities and social sciences is such that it demands you address "class/race/gender," or at least challenge the existing literature on such a basis. So one way or another they get their little point of view in.

But in the case of major public figures---TR, Andrew Jackson, Nixon---nothing tops having new letters or journals that give new insight. Any press, even Oxford, Harvard, or whoever, HAS to publish such new stuff.