The Academic Blackballing of David Horowitz By Scott Jaschik

David Horowitz will not be appearing at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, which is expected to draw thousands of professors to San Diego in November. On that fact, everyone is in agreement. But whether he isn’t participating because he was making unreasonable demands, because he was never invited in the first place, because the association gave in to members who didn’t want to give him a forum, or some combination of factors is the subject of much disagreement.

Further, the fact that the association almost had a debate between Horowitz and Michael Bérubé — and now plans to have the debate, but subbing in Anne Neal for Horowitz — has prompted a dispute about to whom a scholarly group should provide a platform.

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