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That is, of course, a rhetorical question. But honestly, the man makes shit up, as seen in this fun- and fact-filled takedown of his visit to Bloomsburg University. A sampling:

Horowitz writes:

One of the students, Jason Boyer, told me that he had been given a final exam in political science by Professor Diane Zoelle which included a required essay on the topic: Explain Why the War in Iraq is Morally Wrong. For the record, I don't have the exam in front of me and therefore this wording may be imprecise. However, Jason told me that he had to write that the Iraq War was wrong. Instead he wrote that it was right. He got a "D."

There is no Jason Boyer here. Rather, there is a Jason Walter, as Horowitz will say below, but he isn't the one who claims to have taken the exam. It is another student, X (as I will call him), who claims this. Keep in mind that X took Dr. Zoelle's class back in 2003. She has shown me the exam and it is not what the student or Horowitz reports. It is an exam with several sections, two of which are essay sections. The exam questions deal specifically with texts studied in the course. They represent scholarly topics in the field of political ideology (this was a course in political ideology), and are not expressions of the professor's personal beliefs. No question on the exam asks students to explain why the war in Iraq is morally wrong.

Students were required to choose one question topic from each essay section-the first section listed about four questions, the second listed about six. If the student was offended by a question, he could have chosen to answer another. He was not REQUIRED to answer any particular question. (As an aside, I showed X the exam and asked him if this is what he was referring to when talking with Horowitz. Now that three years have passed, the student said that he now doesn't find the question inappropriate-amazing what three years of study will do! To be sure, he remembers being offended when taking the exam three years ago, but now he sees that this may have something to do with his having then misunderstood the material or the nature of the course.)