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Burning ColePosted on Jun 21, 2006Politics trumped academic integrity, says Nation writer Philip Weiss, when a neocon network torpedoed the appointment of Mideast scholar and blogger Juan Cole to a faculty position at Yale.
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By C Quil, June 22, 2006 at 7:32 am #
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Yale has become a lesser institution by blocking the appointment of Juan Cole to its faculty, but the rest of the world still has him to read and refer to when we need a learned discussion of a very complicated part of the world.
Yale, like the Republicans, will become irrelevant if they refuse to listen to their intellectuals and instead stuff their institutions with yes-men and sycophants.
Report thisBy Lord Rathbone, June 21, 2006 at 11:03 am #
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It appears to me that Professor Cole has had a hand in burning his own arse with the thrust of that less than thoughtful, apologetic Caldwell interview. It never fails though. The more comprehensive and learned the intellectual, the more pronounce is the atrophy of instinct--Especially Political instinct--The most base and fundamental of all save those that are involuntary. On the whole this is mostly a decent fellow I think, but impresses me nonetheless as one who might well assist with his own hanging; seems a pity really.
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