On Jun 26, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Michael J. Smith wrote:
> Maybe so, but his scholarly sins are really irrelevant. Academe
> is full of shabby scholars and desperate chancers writing risible
> nonsense in little-read quarterlies. Churchill is no more a sinner
> now,
> scholastically speaking, than he was when they crowned him with
> Lycean laurel. The sins for which he is being punished are political,
> not scholarly ones. It would be much nicer if he were Noam
> Chomsky, but who is?
Noam, for one. This is all true, but isn't it a little bit insulting to Noam and all the other left-wing academics who try really hard to get it right?
Doug