In more recent years, however, I have pretty thrown off all previous restraints. After all, aren't universities supposed to be about free and open discussion? Moreover, some colleagues did not hesitate to put up political material that appeared to be based on nothing more than anti-free market urban legends. Currently, on my door and in the surrounding area, I have the articles on the racist roots of gun control, showing the growth of the federal government, quotes from Albert Jay Nock and, my favorite, a cartoon from an old issue of Liberty showing a frustrated pharaoh looking at a bearded prophet holding a staff. The caption reads"How come you never talk about what's right with Egypt?"

My colleagues' doors abound in Bush bashing, blasts at Republican racism, laments about tax cuts for"the rich," and calls for gun control. Since they are also antiwar (or, at least, anti-Bush's war), I rarely put up anything on the Iraq issue. Hence, I suppose they regard me as the departmental reactionary....or worse.