> Hi Doug--
>
> Just for the record, people other than Alan Wolfe will search in
> vain for a sentence in What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? that
> says
>
>> There is "more than a grain of truth" in the charge that Middle
>> Eastern studies departments are generally biased against Israel.
>
> That's what happens when you get reviewed by Wolfe, you know--
> sometimes he confuses his position with your own. Most of my eight-
> page discussion of ME programs goes after the Pipes/ Kramer
> jihadists on the right. The "grain of truth," entre nous (and I
> should have said so in so many words, not that it would have
> prevented Wolfe from pulling this one), has to do with the
> conservative complaint that academic ME programs don't encourage
> people to go into govt service. That much is quite true, fwiw.
> But the words "biased against Israel" just never appear in the book.
>
> I know you don't owe me any favors, but I'd appreciate it deeply if
> you'd mention this to the LBO group.
> Michael Bérubé
> Paterno Family Professor in Literature
> Department of English
> Pennsylvania State University