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...project, which brought together experts from government, business and academia, is a rare collaboration among traditional adversaries...
...website, which maintains “dossiers” on a handful of professors and institutions, exposes what Pipes calls a trend in “appalling bigotry” in academia. The site identifies incidents of anti-Semitism and pro-Islamic activity on college campuses and lists news stories reporting on how the academic community is responding to violence in the Middle East...
...virtues of multilateralism is hardly surprising. His view has many sympathizers, and their sympathy follows naturally from the kind of moral education we receive as children. Share, we are told. Cooperate. Don’t hurt other people’s feelings. In the vaunted vanity of academia, these lessons are recast in subtler terms. Sharing becomes “social justice.” Cooperation becomes “discourse.” Not hurting other people’s feelings becomes “tolerance.” Who could possibly object to such lovely...
...company or agency engaging in racist or discriminatory practices for the sake of an exclusionary agenda; nor is it really comparable. ROTC is a bureau of our nation’s military, undertaking the difficult task of building a bridge between the armed forces and the world of academia. ROTC should receive the full support of the nation’s universities, as the freedoms around which academic life revolves are the very freedoms that ROTC students fight and die to protect. Instead it is not only under-supported but also undermined...
...education and humility. In high schools and in homes, students, parents and teachers need to study history, talk through current events and refrain from broad theory. More and more, we have to watch our language and resist easy generalizations whenever they may occur. Dismissive of intellectual modesty, academia and government still suffer these pitfalls, speaking expansively, rather than narrowly and concretely. As individual Americans, we have the opportunity—if not the obligation—to foster a new paradigm whereby scholars and policymakers take after a public that respects the complexity of the issues and approaches them with...