Robert Weissberg is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Illinois

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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. He is the author of a number of notable books on politics and pedagogy. Weissberg has also written for magazines such as Forbes

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, and The Weekly Standard

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. He has also been a speaker at American Renaissance Magazine

American Renaissance (magazine)

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conferences where he has been outspoken about his belief in the average mental inferiority of people of African descent.

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.

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