Mike S. Adams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on October 30, 1964. While a student at Clear Lake High School in Houston, TX, his team won the state 5A soccer championship. He graduated from C.L.H.S. in 1983 with a 1.8 GPA. He was ranked 734 among a class of 740, largely as a result of flunking English all four years of high school. After obtaining an Associate’s degree in psychology from San Jacinto College, he moved on to Mississippi State University where he joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity. While living in the fraternity house, his GPA rose to 3.4, allowing him to finish his B.A., and then to pursue a Master’s in Psychology. In 1990, he turned down a chance to pursue a PhD in psychology from the University of Georgia, opting instead to remain at Mississippi State to study Sociology/Criminology. This decision was made entirely on the basis of his reluctance to quit his night job as member of a musical duo. Playing music in bars and at fraternity parties and weddings financed his education. He also played for free beer. Upon getting his doctorate in 1993, Adams, then an atheist and a Democrat, was hired by UNC-Wilmington to teach in the criminal justice program. A few years later, Adams abandoned his atheism and also became a Republican. He also nearly abandoned teaching when he took a one-year leave of absence to study law at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1998. After returning to teach at UNC-Wilmington, Adams won the Faculty Member of the Year award (issued by the Office of the Dean of Students) for the second time in 2000. After his involvement in a well publicized free speech controversy in the wake of the 911 terror attacks, Adams became a vocal critic of the diversity movement in academia. After making appearances on shows like Hannity and Colmes, the O’Reilly Factor, and Scarborough Country, Adams was asked to write a column for Townhall.com.Today he enjoys the privilege of expressing himself both as a teacher and a writer. He is also an avid hunter and reader of classic literature. He published his first book, Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel, in 2004. His second book, Feminists Say the Darnedest Things, will be published in 2008. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:06 GMT Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:06 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Barack Obama just announced his disappointment with the Supreme Court ruling making it unconstitutional to execute those who rape children. Many were surprised that he would support capital punishment given that it is a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/30/ebony_and_irony 2e6dc726-667e-4e96-9bb1-3f1a18cff779 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:06 GMT During the week after Father's Day, I received a number of interesting emails from readers asking me to write about the dearth of looting after the recent floods in Iowa. Specifically, they wanted me to write about the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/23/white_looters_in_iowa fd29350f-d779-4fd5-abe5-ead457b99efe Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:35:10 GMT The good folks at the National Association of Scholars (see NAS.org) have asked me to write a short piece modeled after the Dr. Seuss book If I ran the Zoo. Specifically, they want me to enumerate the changes I would... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/16/if_i_ran_the_zoo 9ba6d99e-eac0-4321-90f1-92cc5ae66ee6 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:00:01 GMT Senator Barack Obama recently made a trip to North Carolina. During the trip he made special arrangements to meet with North Carolina State Senator Julia Boseman. The face-to-face meeting is now fueling speculation that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/12/obama-boseman_2008 7d2bbc13-daea-4ed1-aeb3-100b920c900a Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT I was asked recently - by a child porn advocate, no less - why I write books with chapter titles that are so "offensive." Citing two such chapter titles - "Fag Hags and Rainbow Flags" and "The Liar, the Witch, and the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/09/2008_pc e06bef67-1520-439f-ac21-bf6551db26d7 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 04:00:30 GMT One of the toughest things about reading Sam Harris' Letter to a Christian Nation is deciding when he is expressing total ignorance as opposed to total dishonesty. When he accuses Christians of spending more energy... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/03/fourth_letter_to_a_secular_nation 48843510-41aa-4c51-abeb-842d7e737e57 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT Over the course of the last two years I've been telling my students about an important case making its way up to the United States Supreme Court. The State of Louisiana has been seeking to execute those who are... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/06/02/our_states_right_to_kill_the_rapist 2ed7c86d-35af-4cd6-ab00-d8c6f6880065 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:01:00 GMT This February at CPAC I had a chance to hear Michelle Malkin speak at a luncheon sponsored by the Young America's Foundation. Malkin criticized a number of recent statements by the presumptive Republican nominee John... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/27/ann_hominem 82a92fc9-7f8f-49eb-b959-78e814c0fd61 Tue, 27 May 2008 04:00:41 GMT This column will come as quite a surprise to feminists across my campus and across the nation. It will mark the first time I have come to the defense of a university - this time, my own - for its promotion of a radical... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/26/the_ovary_tower e0e08069-4842-446e-ab8f-37b25bbba3f5 Mon, 26 May 2008 04:00:37 GMT Yes, thank you very much. Please be seated. It was a pleasure speaking to you this evening. I have a few minutes to answer some questions before I speak to the reporter for the university newspaper. Yes, you on the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/21/q__a f444440a-9a6d-49f2-a812-1754007b1676 Wed, 21 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT This will be, without question, the most difficult column I've ever had to write. But the drug problem at UNC-Wilmington (where I teach) has gotten so widespread that I have to say something. To do otherwise would be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/19/university_awards_criminal_justice_degree_to_cocaine_dealer 5a5f68bb-1ed1-4154-80d1-fb3a6fc1ebce Mon, 19 May 2008 04:00:58 GMT Nicholas: It has come to my attention that I may have inadvertently criticized (publicly) a woman who is dying from breast cancer. That information, I am told, has been disseminated in one (or more) of your lectures. I... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/15/nick_at_nite e1ffd08f-5c32-4d4b-959c-a82b00ecf9b8 Thu, 15 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT My good friend Lee - a Vietnam veteran and proud gun-toting conservative - recently declared to me that the FairTax is a great idea that will never actually happen. Because I am a true Reagan conservative - one full of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/12/nothing_is_certain_but_death_and_the_fairtax 092a424e-7352-4f17-b48b-5204fc234056 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:21:20 GMT I don't have to remind my readers that I spend a good bit of my time disagreeing with campus leftists. Nor do I need to remind them that most of these disagreements are with leftist professors. But, until now, I haven't... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/05/05/caution!_you_are_about_to_enter_a_gun_free_zone f80316c8-ac0f-44f7-a521-b5ab7f187261 Mon, 05 May 2008 04:00:31 GMT There is little doubt that this will be the most controversial column I've written to date. But sometimes when working in a university environment one is exposed to ideas that one simply cannot repudiate. And this... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MikeSAdams/2008/04/28/time_to_compromise_on_gun_control 9548f86c-8e5a-48ca-a543-807c466fd7e7 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:01:00 GMT