Jonathan Turley – We have previously discussed universities are removing portraits of their founders or most accomplished figures because they are white males. The latest such example is Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute where neurobiologist  Leslie Vosshall announced that portraits of the winners of the prestigious winners of the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award are displayed.

The problem is that they are the wrong race and gender so a panel is expected to order their removal. The “problem” was identified by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow who gave an award for leading female scientists and derisively referred to the portraits by asked “What is up with the dude wall?” Now the “Dude Wall” will be removed in a move that is as sexist as it is anti-intellectual. Continue reading →