Last week sometime, I noticed that a few of the professionally outraged people I follow on Twitter were calling one of my editors at the Wall Street Journal racist. I know Naomi Schaefer Riley well enough to know that this is laughable. What did she do to warrant such a charge? Why, she criticized the topics of a few dissertations from black studies departments that were highlighted in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article. Riley, who has long written about higher education, is one of the bloggers at the Chronicle's Brainstorm blog. Here's much of what she wrote in this blog post:
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