Sunday, March 27, 2011

Republican Party of Wisconsin attacks UW professor's right to speak -- but can't spell his name right

Republican Party of Wisconsin attacks UW professor's right to speak -- but can't spell his name right

"Why the attack? Because Cronon, the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Rhodes Scholar and MacArthur Foundation fellow who has for decades been one of Wisconsin's most beloved public intellectuals, dared to raise questions about whether national right-wing think tanks and interest groups might be influencing the choices made by Gov. Scott Walker's administration to attack Wisconsin unions and initiate a power grab that even some Republicans worry will diminish democracy at the local level."