I advise students who hear a professor proclaim that all ideas are equal to drop his class immediately. If he believes such a thing, then the professor’s ideas are no better than that of a student. He is therefore intellectually unfit to be a professor.

Recently, someone wrote to me complaining of a “recent and dangerous trend” of attacks on intellectuals coming from “those on the right.” The writer’s ostensible purpose was to shield intellectuals from “attacks.” His real purpose was to shield them from criticism.

Nothing could be more dangerous than shielding today’s intellectual, particularly the secular university professor, from criticism. It is precisely because they are so coddled and shielded (read: tenured) that they have become modern day Pharisees.

Jesus was not nice to the Pharisees. In fact, He had this to say to them: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.” (Matthew 23: 27-28).

David Wheaton, author of University of Destruction, correctly points out that there were two principal reasons why Jesus reserved his harshest judgment for the Pharisees. The first was that they were proud. The second was that they were liars, or false teachers.

It has long been understood that academics are a proud bunch. But few realize just how dishonest academics have become. This hasn’t always been the case.

Mike Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi and attended high school and Community College in Texas. BA and MS in Psychology and a PhD in Sociology/Criminology from Mississippi State University. He is an Associate Professor in Criminal Justice at UNC-Wilmington where he has twice earned the student-selected Faculty Member of the Year.

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