Cold Breezes and Idiot Winds Patriotic Correctness and the Post-9/11 Assault on Academe /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Annibale, Valerie Scatamburlo-D’ (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2011.
• Series: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; 70
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational Policy and Politics.

After 9/11, rightists capitalized on an atmosphere of fear and confusion to resuscitate the “culture wars” of the 1990s and once again targeted the academy. Using tactics reminiscent of the McCarthy era, religious firebrands, militant neoconservatives, and free market fundamentalists engaged in a co...