ok. i think i dislike the approximate political unanimity of academia as much as anyone does. it does our students, and our own powers of self-examination, a great disservice. but this is just horseshit. yo, horowitz you're welcome to come sit in on my class; you're welcome to tape. all you have to do is ask. plus, you'll get some shit you can use; you'd be disturbed about what on a given day i might say about the attorney general or whomever. but when you start paying students to secretly record the politically problematic utterances of their teachers, much less start passing legislation demanding that classes be examined for their anti-americanism, you're just being vicious and stupid. when you start calling that "academic freedom," you're ill.