Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
"Scholar as Sitting Duck": The Cronon Affair and the Buffer Zone in American Public Debate. |
| Authors: |
Medvetz, Thomas |
| Source: |
Public Culture. Winter2012, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p47-53. 7p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*INTELLECTUALS, *COLLECTIVE bargaining by government employees, *RIGHT & left (Political science), *POLITICAL participation, UNITED States politics & government |
| Geographic Terms: |
WISCONSIN, UNITED States |
| People: |
CRONON, William |
| Abstract: |
The article discusses the "Cronon affair" in which an open records request was made for University of Wisconsin historian William Cronon's university emails after criticizing the Republican Party's stance on Wisconsin's collective bargaining debates. The author believes the issue is related directly to the state of intellectualism in the United States, and comments on the political history of intellectualism, technocracy, and intellectual discourse in U.S. political debates. |
| Database: |
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