Should outsiders try to influence faculty hiring or tenure procedures at universities?
The question arises because, with the radicalization of the American universities, moderate voices have jumped into academic personnel issues. For example, note the following scandals in Middle East studies alone in 2006:
Kevin Barrett at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: When it became known that he believes the Bush administration perpetrated the 9/11 attacks, his teaching of “Islam: Religion and Culture” spurred a statewide debate.