WHAT’S DUMBER, THAT SHE DID THIS, OR THAT HER COLLEAGUES WANT TO KICK HER OUT FOR DOING IT? Oregon Tax Prof Nancy Shurtz Says She Wore Blackface To Halloween Party To Teach Lesson As Author Of Black Man In A White Coat.

Oh, it’s not even close. It’s her colleagues. What a disgrace. Related thoughts from Eugene Volokh: “We have reached a bad and dangerous place in American life, and in American university life in particular.”

If a cabal of right-wing conspirators set out to discredit and destroy the academy, it couldn’t do a better job than the academy is doing to itself.

UPDATE: Volokh link was broken before. Fixed now. Sorry!