"After Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote a blog post for the Chronicle of Higher Education calling black studies “claptrap” based on the titles of a handful of dissertations, nearly 6,500 people signed a petition calling for her dismissal from the blog. Yesterday Liz McMillen, the site’s editor, wrote a note apologizing for Riley’s post and said that the publication had decided to part ways with the author, who is also an affiliate scholar of the Institute of American Values, a conservative think tank based in New York."