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Home Front: Politix
At universities, little learned from 9/11
2006-09-15
By Harvey Mansfield
FIVE YEARS have now passed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and what have our universities been doing? I can tell you about Harvard, and the answer is not reassuring. Harvard has just welcomed the former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami to give a little talk. Harvard thinks this is free speech, but in fact the university has allowed itself to be used as a platform for sweet-talk in the service of a regime that hates, and wants to bamboozle, America. Note, too, that Harvard professor Stephen Walt and a Chicago professor have just written an exposé of the Israeli lobby's influence on American politics. They encourage the belief that Israel is the main problem we face.

Nor has Harvard relaxed its hostility to ROTC on the campus. The pretext is the military's policy discriminating against gays by requiring them to keep silent about being gay. Never mind what would happen to gays or defenders of gays if the Islamic fascists took over.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Universities has long passed their mythological front of being being about 'intellect'. It's one big paper mill with trappings of self-importance. Tenue, with its publish or perish standards, has created just another civil service backwater in which the quality of its output doesn't measure up to the real market place. Relying upon a name brand is quickly losing its value when the product sucks.

Do store clerks and managers really need a degree or advanced degree in Humanities? After you did away with 2 year teachers colleges back in the 60s , did education really improve? People hawking slavery or monarchy would be laughed off the stage of life, but you still keep the marxists around after the 20th Century demonstarted they were as useless and destructive as any of those institutions.

Clean your own house or you'll have someone clean it for you.
Posted by: Ebbunter Glolusing3985   2006-09-15 09:23  

#2  How long before Harvey gets shouted down at Harvard?

Free speach is for me

but not for thee
Posted by: Bobby   2006-09-15 06:51  

#1  At universities, little learned from 9/11

There - fixed that for ya'.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2006-09-15 04:46  

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