Secondly, how important is stifling debate on college campuses compared with stifling any coverage at all in the major media?
Still, god bless the University of California and Professors Franz Shurman and Peter Dale Scott for opening my eyes to the truth about Vietnam and US foreign policy.
BobW --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 18, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Michael Smith wrote:
>
> > I'll inject an uncharacteristic Pollyanna note
> here: I rather think
> > they're fooling fewer people these days. That's
> one of the reasons
> > why they've gotten so hysterical and absurd. When
> a clown like Alan
> > Dershowitz is your public face -- then you're in
> trouble.
>
> Another thing we agree on! I think they've kicked up
> the hysteria a
> few notches precisely because they feel so
> threatened. As problematic
> as Mearsheimer & Walt are, they've gotten a lot of
> mainstream
> attention and almost certainly started conversations
> among the semi-
> elite that probably wouldn't have occurred without
> them. Tony Judt.
> And Jimmy Carter! Dennis P's friend Morton Klein has
> a raving full-
> page ad in the NYT today. They're scared.
>
> Doug
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