As a reminder to some among our social commentators, the job of philosophers since the time of Socrates/Plato has been to expose the lies of the sophists...
The ongoing clamping down of (academic) freedom on American campuses
continues..an outgrowth of neocon Zionist Daniel Pipes "Campus Watch" spawns
more 'big...
[It is a sad business, but with the decline in numbers of tenured faculty and vast increase in part-time teaching, academic freedom on any number of topics is...
[It is a sad business, but with the decline in numbers of tenured faculty and vast increase in part-time teaching, academic freedom on any number of topics is...
A Mind of a Different Order" In Memoriam: Raul Hilberg By MICHAEL NEUMANN In December 2000 I had the privilege of meeting Raul Hilberg at a conference
in...
"I intend to go to my office on the first day of classes and, if my way is
barred, to engage in civil disobedience," Finkelstein said. "If arrested, I'll go on...
26 August 2007 - "In Defense of Academic Freedom" - DePaul Students Launch Website and Organize Lecture **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** 26 August 2007 Media Contact:...
"I intend to go to my office on the first day of classes and, if my way is barred, to engage in civil disobedience," Finkelstein said. "If arrested, I'll go on...
DISSENT UNDER FIRE AS CHICAGO TEACHERS AND LECTURERS FACE INTIMIDATION By George H. Beres Chicago often is centerpiece for happenings of national importance. ...
Sept. 6 http://insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2007/09/06/finkelstein Finkelstein and DePaul Settle Wednesday was supposed to be the day of the big...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/education/10barnard.html September 10, 2007 Fracas Erupts Over Book on Mideast by a Barnard Professor Seeking Tenure By KAREN...
[In the Yahoo group focused on truth and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Israel_Palestine I have posted some 70...
http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/09/20/illinois Hoover in the Heartland Is it an “academy” or a “fund"? The name of the new Academy on Capitalism and...
According to the NY Sun, President Lee Bollinger has rescinded Columbia's Ahmadinejad invitation: http://www.nysun.com/article/40142?page_no=1 overruling a...
A Spectator editor corrects my earlier post suggesting that Bollinger had canceled Ahmadinejad: "Yeah that article's from last year. Don't worry—Bloomberg...
[I happen to favor the Ahmadinejad visit to Columbia as a step towards talking and away from war. But one can see the politics at work by the following...
... Two things strike me about this controversy. First, to my knowledge, it has not been established that Iran in fact seeks to develop nuclear weapons. ...
Perhaps we shall get some clear answers from the questioning at Columbia -- certainly Ahmadinejad seemed to get the better of the hostile questioning on 60...
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/ Columbia students have been doing their homework on Iran's President Ahmadinejad who is to speak at their campus today...
... So, according to the Wall Street Journal, this morning: <quote> In perhaps his strangest flourish, Mr. Ahmadinejad repeatedly questioned why forces in...
... The Boston Globe has a far less ambiguous version: <http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/25/fiery_give_and_take_for_irans_president/> ...
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