Oof! Ou! Ouch!  

In the few weeks that I have been blogging on the Chronicle of Higher Education’sInnovation site, some readers have greeted me warmly. And several are especially warm to my role as president of the National Association of Scholars.

Chuck Kleinhans, admiring my sense of reciprocity with the gilded class, noted the propriety of the “NAS’s chief administrator going to bat for the rich whose donations keep his organization afloat.” Mr. Kleinhans is, however, not all praise. At one point he gently chided me, “Get to work and do some real research Professor Woods.” (The “s” he adds to my name, like a doctor of humane letters, is purely honorific.) Mr. Kleinhans is occasionally loose with modifiers, as when he writes, “As the chief of the ultra conservative National Association of Scholars, I assume Mr. Woods embraces capitalism.” For the record, Mr. Kleinhans is not the chief of the ultra conservative National Association of Scholars.

“Marktropolis,” who comments on many Chronicle blogs, has urged me to look to mass media as a means of expanding my audience. “So, Peter, when is Fox going to have you on with O’Reilly and Beck to continue disseminating this BS?” I am flattered, but neither gentleman has called me yet. Marktropolis also credits me and my organization with horticultural zeal. He says my message comes down to, “’Hey  you kids get off my lawn.’ Which is pretty much all NAS has been doing since its founding

http://www.nas.org/polArticles.cfm?Doc_Id=1668