How Iran Uses Islamic State to Expand Its Influence
The mullahs want a sectarian bloodbath.
November 24, 2015
The Harvard president violated the three sacred doctrines of campus leftism.
The headlines about absurd protests and pseudo-scandals on American campuses, and the often craven responses to them by college administrators, give the sense that academia is imploding. An adumbration of this latest crisis can be found in the end of Lawrence Summers’ tenure as president of Harvard in 2006. Summers found himself in hot water because he transgressed taboos about race and gender and also, writes Edward Alexander, about Israel:
The mullahs want a sectarian bloodbath.
The secretary of state accidentally spoke his mind.
The Harvard president violated the three sacred doctrines of campus leftism.
“Like Ben Hur, but bigger and better.”
Pride without meaning or responsibility is a hollow sort of cool.
The headlines about absurd protests and pseudo-scandals on American campuses, and the often craven responses to them by college administrators, give the sense that academia is imploding. An adumbration of this latest crisis can be found in the end of Lawrence Summers’ tenure as president of Harvard in 2006. Summers found himself in hot water because he transgressed taboos about race and gender and also, writes Edward Alexander, about Israel:
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