Link to Ward Churchill fansite
Like Ward Churchill, John Walker Lindh, Courtney Love and many other middle-class American kids, I acquired a great admiration for Mr. Malcolm X when I was growing up. So when I see that a controversial new work by Prof. Churchill is called On the Logic of Roosting Chickens, I jump to congenial conclusions. The main essay, linked above, is not rhetorical perfection. Like most academics, Churchill has a clanking, infelicitous prose style. His writing has a touch of paranoid rant. It is fueled by animosity toward the sort of caricatured Americans you see in sitcoms and commercials. Its imagery is hackneyed. It pays the usual obeisance to the Holocaust popcult, drawing tortured comparisons between dead Iraqis and all those trillions of Jews and Gypsies killed by Capt. Eichmann's magical ray gun.
But it has its points and tells me lots that (even) I did not know.
