Victor Davis Hanson has another great column on Ward Churchill. First Hanson looks at all the things that Churchill claimed to be but wasn't.

Dr., Native American, original artist, serious scholar, combat veteran, highly recruited and sought-after academic, ex-Weatherman mentor: How many — if any — of these seven faces of our real-life Dr. Lao are true?

Then Hanson explains how someone with no credentials could get away with this ruse for so long.

Yet instead of seeing Churchill as no man, it is better to envision him as an academic everyman. In the alternate universe of the modern campus, any collective imbalance of wealth, education, health, happiness, or almost anything is explicable only in terms of deliberate present discrimination and systematic past oppression.

Any other exegesis — cultural attitudes, individual preferences, bad personal choices and behaviors, time off for child-rearing, bad luck — is irrelevant. Indeed, to raise them is prima facie evidence of one’s own discrimination, intolerance, and racism, and can lead to the academic guillotine. Ask Harvard president Larry Summers.

Instead, equality of result is to be mandated by a government that in turn is to be instructed on how to do so by the university. Its cadres of subsidized social scientists and humanists provide both the rigged diagnosis and the lucrative therapy. Thus, to succeed on campus without a degree or talent or much of anything, it is absolutely critical to be an ideologue of the first order.

It helps also to pretend to be a member of two suffering groups: Native Americans and Vietnam Vets. He got away with this for so long because the university creates the perfect environment for this sort of scam to flourish. And jut think, if Churchill had stayed away from celebrating the deaths of 9/11, he'd still be going his merry way today.