If so many professors are forcing personal, course-unrelated politics into classes, shouldn’t there be hundreds of unambiguous cases? Allow me to suggest the GOP attack on academia is the politicized thing. That it’s bad faith, based on evidence like “Charlie Kirk said” or “Ilya Shapiro complained…”

The US government says reading Toni Morrison or Maya Angelou is political. In my terrorism class, I explain how “Great Replacement” is a false conspiracy theory that’s motivated multiple terrorist attacks. Now that America’s leaders push the theory too, teaching that is political. Should I stop?

And are we sure that politics don’t belong in computer science classes? Not at all? Observing tech industry leaders get very involved in politics—taking over parts of the state, breaking laws, and having tech operatives mess with govt systems—is the problem they were taught about politics too much?

Academia should resist the trap media fell into, interpreting bad faith, politicized attacks—typically accusing an entire industry based on a handful of anecdotes, some of which don’t stand up to scrutiny—as evidence of a real problem that’s academia’s own fault. That bad faith cannot be satisfied.