Hamilton College has hired Susan Rosenberg, an advocate of "collective violence" against the U.S. government, to teach a writing class next semester. Caught with several hundred pounds of explosives in 1984, Rosenberg was serving a fifty-eight year prison sentence until President Clinton pardoned her on his last day in office. The hiring of the unrepentant Rosenberg, unfortunately, is not an isolated example of a college bringing on board a faculty member largely because of the faculty member's criminal past. My NewsMax article explains why setting off bombs, aiding terrorists, kidnapping, and even murder are no obstacle to steady employment at a number of U.S. academic institutions.

I bet the same sort of story could be told about American universities and communists, and left-wing terrorists and criminals of old. I can't think of too many examples offhand but would Dewey's debate with Trotsky count? I am not just thinking of the presence of Marxists in academic posts but actual communist revolutionaries, I would be shocked if there isn't a history of them in American colleges going back to early in the century.