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The attempt by a conservative website to out and possibly intimidate UCLA professors who espouse political views has media legs, at least today. Shawn Steel, the former California Republican Party chair, defended the campaign on Larry Mantle's show this morning. Steel first tried to portray the effort as aimed solely at professors who intimidate their students in class, but he let slip that he considers the targeted professors to be anti-American. Conservative UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge weighs in on his blog. Law prof Jerry Kang also posts (I don't know his politics or ideology.) My post last night centered on the website's strange definition of radical to include mainstream views, expressed inside or outside the classroom, held by large segments—at times a majority—of the American populace but that don't happen to be pro-Republican.