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...idea of rabble-rousing, controversial, and inflammatory events staged to criticize politically-correct excesses. Bigots like Ahmadinejad do little harm—few American college students share his opinions, and he already lacks credibility in most people’s eyes. But firebrands like Horowitz who bring legitimate??if often overblown and rhetorically inappropriate—criticisms to bear against the academic left pose a much greater threat: to expose to more observers the shaky foundations upon which most postmodern prejudices are bulwarked...
...general education report was discussed. Others have said that the low attendance was implicit criticism. Indeed, some professors present at the meeting criticized the compact for focusing too much on the faculty and not enough on students’ responsibility for their own learning. Yet while their concerns are legitimate??and the compact’s authors agree that student behavior must also be addressed—any disagreement professors have with the report hardly excuses their absence. Rather, it strongly suggests their apathy...
...scholarship, with its unparalleled resources on American women’s history at Schlesinger Library, is a remarkable quality that should garner respect, not derision. Once these attributes are discussed in a non-biased light, they provide a host of other possible—and much more legitimate??factors that could have influenced the committee’s decision...
...kill tens of millions because of their religious and ethnic identity. Oh, and we’re going to do this really soon.” Rather, they focused on the treatment of ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia, the harsh terms of the Versailles treaty, and other “legitimate?? grievances that any respectable nation can have...
...conflict is “pretty straightforward.”His latest book is entitled “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History” and argues that Israel avoids taking blame by dismissing accusations made against them—however legitimate??as anti-semitic.A large portion of the book also directly refutes the arguments made in Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s book “The Case for Israel.” In his speech, Finkelstein called the book...