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Last week was Academic Freedom week on Radio Free Penn State, a public affairs show on Lion Radio, Penn State University’s radio station. “Issue advocacy is bringing our ideology into the classroom. Everyone does it,” said Penn State Professor Sam Richards, who in fact believes separating ideology from the classroom is impossible. Professor Michael Berube and Professor Richards of Penn State, David Horowitz, Representative Gibson Armstrong, David French of the Alliance Defense Fund and a number of past and current students took part in the four days of programming sharing their views on academic freedom issues. In the first day...

[Editor’s note. This is a continuation of the debate between Michael Berube and David Horowitz after the close of part one. For clarity, we have posted Horowitz’s responses to Berube’s original objections to DiscoverTheNetwork.org and then Berube’s replies. The exchanges are separated by asterisks.]                                   *            *            * Horowitz: How does the database “blur the distinctions between the mainstream left and the far far left” or “between the far left and liberals such as Barack Obama?” The database clearly identifies five categories of leftists:  “Totalitarian Radicals,” “Anti-American Radicals,” “Leftists,” “Moderate Leftists” and “Affective Leftists.” How are the distinctions blurred if they...

Editor's Note: Why Michael Can't Read: Defining the American Left -- Part I was published March 14, 2005 on GOPUSA. ---- For the interested, the term "liberal" was hijacked from actual liberals a generation ago. One can see this for oneself by taking the career of John F. Kennedy as a point of reference. Kennedy became a liberal icon at the beginning of the Sixties, before the left gained the ability to define (and re-define) the political spectrum for the rest of us. Kennedy's politics -- militant anti-Communism, hawkish defense policies and tax-cut agendas are indistinguishable from the politics of...