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...clear why Professor Alan Dershowitz is the unlikely hero of the book. A steadfast free speech advocate, he stands up against the calls for a speech code, arguing convincingly that they are both impractical and oppressive. A man who shares Thomas’ free speech absolutism, Dershowitz becomes the author??s archetype for how all left-but-not-far-left professors should have responded to the crisis...
Doctorow’s reading was previously scheduled to happen two weeks ago, but due to scheduling conflicts with the author??s publishing deadlines, had to be delayed. The department’s May schedule was very full and it decided to add Doctorow to the two other speakers on next year’s roster...
...openly avow their lack of development, and then consciously choose to fix it. He also intersperses personal accounts of minor technological enlightenment—realizing that he can print his boarding pass at home, for instance—that provide a welcome air of self-deprecation to countervail the author??s reverence for his own “Columbus-like” trip to India...
...introduction, penned by one of the author??s colleagues, presents the account—given Hano’s penchant for writing in the first person and weaving his personal opinions and experiences into the narrative—as a pre-1960s example of so-called “new journalism...
...difficulty in bringing the author??s ideals to life is illustrated in his description of the presidency of Peru’s Toledo, whom Vargas Llosa himself helped elect: “marred by corruption” and “the most unpopular in the nation’s history.” (At one point, Toledo’s approval rating was near 4 percent, with a 4 percent margin of error...