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These are but a few examples of the ostensibly open-minded dialogue that Foreign Cultures 17 provides its students. A guise of objectivity veils a most dangerous species of academia: The curriculum that hides its motivations, making students think they have come to their own conclusions based on incontrovertible facts...
...books by cultural commentators like Edward Said and Thomas Friedman are headed for re-prints; and when scholar Larry P. Goodson, whose Afghanistan’s Endless War is just out of the University of Washington Press, is being flown around the country like the Nick Hornby of wizened academia...
...Khagram explains that academics’ failure to recognize the quality of KSG faculty’s work—at Harvard and elsewhere—puts KSG professors at a disadvantage in the world of academia...
Therefore, the marginalizing, the Orientalizing, the “otherness,” of ethnic studies should no longer occur in Harvard academia. Long established domination of scholarship by the Western European and American tradition does not justify the academic objectification of ethnic studies. After all, the first woman arrived at Harvard 58 years ago. But W. E. B. Dubois arrived long, long before...
...will want Harvard to be the absolutely the best university it can be, and will help the president in pushing an agenda of change,” he said. “He can talk in acronyms, but he can also interpret science and the ideas of academia to the general public...