AMEN. Streetwise Professor talks smack to those oh-so-precious academicians who fear a research center named for Milton Friedman.

Coming from the academic left, charges of politically influenced scholarship are richer than Peking duck. I mean really people, look in the ‘effin mirror. Anyone who denies that political agendas–and mainly leftist ones–don’t pervade the humanities and social sciences is a liar. The only question is whether they lie to themselves, or only favor the great unwashed with their falsehoods.

Via Atlantic Blog, where there's a list of seventeen precious academicians at the University of Chicago who have gone on record in opposition to the Milton Friedman Institute and in support of a third-rate deaducationist at the University of Illinois at Chicago.