[Originally posted today on americanstudier.blogspot.com.]
[Apologies if someone else has diaried about this story already!]
A chilling story from Wisconsin about a downside of public scholarship in this era of anti-education attacks:
http://www.theatlantic.com/...
Cronon is, as Fallows notes in that article, one of the very best (and most prominent) historians and AmericanStudiers we've got. But it wouldn't matter if he were a random part-time faculty member at a community college, this would still be so deeply wrong and immoral as to beggar description.