{"id":351168,"date":"2018-03-07T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/running-the-gauntlet-with-paul-gottfried\/"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:46:04","slug":"running-the-gauntlet-with-paul-gottfried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/running-the-gauntlet-with-paul-gottfried\/","title":{"rendered":"Running the Gauntlet With Paul Gottfried"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 No Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I taught college for twenty years and can\u2019t imagine walking down the hallway to class past a phalanx of students holding signs accusing me of such things as \u201cracism,\u201d \u201chate,\u201d and \u201cfascism.\u201d I did not even want to be confronted about their grades on papers and routinely told students to wait until after class to discuss such matters.<\/p>\n<p>I was therefore quite impressed by the way Paul Gottfried, Horace Raffensberger Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Elizabethtown College, handled such students lining the hallway of the Kirner-Johnson building on the Hamilton College campus last October. I accompanied Paul along with Bob Paquette, Executive Director of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), where I am a resident fellow. Paul at the invitation of AHI gave guest lectures in AHI resident fellow David Frisk\u2019s \u201cModern Conservative Politics\u201d course and in Hamilton College Professor Alfred Kelly\u2019s \u201cNazi Germany\u201d seminar.<\/p>\n<p>Paul is an internationally recognized scholar on inter-war European history. One of his recent books is about fascism, so it\u2019s doubly insulting that one of the signs said, \u201cStudents Against Fascism.\u201d Paul is funny, mild-mannered, and incredibly learned. As I wrote in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theahi.org\/appearance-of-paul-gottfried-sparks-disruptions-at-hamilton-college\/\">article<\/a> for the AHI website, he chatted with one student in German, and had there been students who spoke French, Italian, Polish, or Hungarian, he could have done the same with them. He also could have given them lessons in classical Greek, a subject he used to teach.<\/p>\n<p>Paul was never thrown off his game by the accusatory questions from protesting students who were allowed into the classes. There was not a bit of hostility towards the self-righteous students in the hallway who pinned him, repeating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/03\/mary-grabar\/running-the-gauntlet-with-paul-gottfried-at-hamilton-college\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I taught college for twenty years and can\u2019t imagine walking down the hallway to class past a phalanx of students holding signs accusing me of such things as \u201cracism,\u201d \u201chate,\u201d and \u201cfascism.\u201d I did not even want to be confronted about their grades on papers and routinely told students to wait until after class to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}