Robert Weissberg

Robert Weissberg (born 1941) is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois. He is the author of eleven books on politics and pedagogy. He has published numerous scientific papers in leading journals in political science.^[1] Weissberg has also written for magazines such as Forbes, Society, and The Weekly Standard.^[2][3] He has also been a speaker at American Renaissance Magazine conferences^[4] where he has been outspoken about his belief in the average mental differences between races.

Education and academic career

A graduate of Teaneck High School, Weissberg earned an A.B. from Bard College and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin. He was an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and later Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reputation

Since retiring from the University of Illinois, Weissberg's choice of topic and method of attack has led him to be described as a "slaughterer of sacred cows." In his 2010 Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, he claims that Hispanics and blacks have lower IQs than whites and Asians, a difference, he claims, that is genetically determined.^[5]

In April 2012, in the wake of the John Derbyshire firing, National Review ended its relationship with Weissberg, noting that the editors only recently discovered that Weissberg had "participated in an American Renaissance conference where he delivered a noxious talk about the future of white nationalism".^[6][7]

Books

• American Democracy: Theory & Reality (1972)
• Political Learning, Political Choice, & Democratic Citizenship (1974)
• Elementary Political Analysis (co-authored with Herbert Jacob) (1975)
• Understanding American Government (1979)
• Political Tolerance: Balancing Community and Diversity (1998)
• Democracy and the Academy (2000)
• Polling, Policy, and Public Opinion: The Case Against Heeding the "Voice of the People" (2002)
• The Limits of Civic Activism: Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics (2004)
• Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to "Accept Differences" Undermines Civil Society (2008)
• Bad Students, Not Bad Schools (2010)

Selected bibliography

• "Academic Deception for Fun and Profit". Telos 112 (Summer 1998). New York: Telos Press.
• "The Perils of Keeping America America". Human Events August 25, 2004

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