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...last year’s Faculty no-confidence vote in Summers’ leadership came from “political agitators posed as professors.”Much of the evidence cited in Horowitz’s book has come under criticism this week for being taken out of context or being factually incorrect. For example, Larry Estrada, associate professor of ethnic studies at Western Washington University, is profiled as supporting the creation of an independent Hispanic state in America’s Southwest to be called “Atzlan.” In a statement, Estrada said...
While mostly conservative-leaning papers have published the cartoons, including The Salient and The New York Sun, editors of Spare Change News decided to publish them within the context of civil liberties...
...universities in recruiting top international talent, Patten said that all schools need to have a thorough strategy to target prospective students, the FT reported Sunday. Oxford University Press Officer Ruth Collier wrote in an e-mail that the British press had taken Patten’s remarks out of context, blowing the visit out of proportion. Patten was simply “talking about what he had coming up—whereas it has been portrayed in the British press as if he announced his trip as the launch of some kind of massive campaign,“ Collier wrote...
Responding to the Salient’s decision to print the cartoons, the Harvard College Interfaith Council announced that it would host a forum on Thursday night at 7 p.m. in the Kirkland Junior Common Room to discuss the cartoons and put them into a broader context. The forum will be co-sponsored by various religious and political groups, including Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Political Union...
...with how a rather sizable religious tradition doesn’t seem even to comprehend the notion of free expression—but somehow I don’t think that’s what the poster is referring to.All these events, altogether typical and expected in a Harvard context, bespeak an ironic myopia with America. Ironic, because the more important and less understood object of study is not American extremism but Islamic extremism, and because we live in a post-colonial age when independence has supposedly brought free agency to historical actors around the world. Yet, you wouldn?...