In Academic Freedom in Iran and America, Robert Jensen, a professor of journalism at University of Texas at Austin, writes, “It’s interesting that [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad justified his desire to deal with dangerous professors because of the university officials’ ‘tendency to introduce politics into academic affairs.’ The phrase is reminiscent of a common complaint aimed at folks like me, that we ‘politicize the classroom.’” An interesting — and somewhat scary — read.