Hating America

Selectively constructing his facts and even his own identity, controversial Colorado professor Ward Churchill embodies the radical left that dominates college campuses | Gene Edward Veith

When the word got out that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill had called the 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns" who deserved to die, two liberal northeastern schools—Hamilton College and Wheaton College (in Massachusetts, not the evangelical college in Illinois)—canceled his scheduled speaking engagements.

But not the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, a school of 10,000 students in a small rural town in the Midwest. Mr. Churchill, an Indian-rights activist, had been invited to be a speaker for the annual Native Pride Week months before the controversy broke out. Despite pressure to cancel his appearance—including a 67 to 31 vote on a resolution to do so in the state legislature—Chancellor Jack Miller allowed the talk to go on in the name of free speech.