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Though the tone of the debate was vitriolic immediately after the essay first appeared, the discussion has taken on a new tone. And only now—after the critics have spoken, Walt and Mearsheimer have responded, and the essay has been the subject of lengthy commentaries in various publications—is it possible to gain a rough sense of the essays’s influence...
...response to the essay was both swift and strong...
...interviews shortly after the essay was published, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz repeatedly called the authors “liars” and “bigots,” adding later, in a published rebuttal, that Belfer Professor of International Affairs Walt and Mearsheimer’s essay was “filled with distortions...
Dershowitz predicted in an interview that the essay would be a “career-ending move,” adding that in one particular case where a quotation was allegedly taken out of context, the authors had “probably drawn the quotation from neo-Nazi sources.” And if they “had mangled the quotation themselves,” he said, they had “committed a fireable offense...
...these days. What might keep journalists from getting too full of themselves? The sight of a few leakers, reporters and editors defending themselves against formal charges of treason might do the trick. Gary L. Parry Carrollton, Texas, U.S. Stengel's "No one gets a blank check" is the finest essay I have read for some time. It's a pity he couldn't station himself in Australia for a while to judge some of our pillars of society, whose double-talk is on a par with that of their ideological brothers and sisters in the U.S. Bill Sherriff Niddrie, Australia...