I highly recommend my colleague Matthew Duss' profile of "Giuliani's War Cabinet." The presence of Daniel Pipes on Rudy's team speaks not only to Giuliani's ignorant bellicosity on terrorism and the Middle East, but also to another of his longtime traits: A profound distrust of free speech and intellectualism. Pipes' Campus Watch stands alongside David Horowitz's "academic freedom" movement as a prime supporter of the attack on free speech in the classroom. These organizations claim to support classrooms without ideology and the hiring of more conservative professors in the humanities and social sciences. But their underlying agenda is to punish critical thinking, especially when it comes to race, class, gender, sex, and America's role in the world. So it's no wonder that Pipes gets along great with the mayor who tried to censor art museums and ban the children's book Heather Has Two Mommies. --Dana Goldstein
