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...Evita and Cats, "came out at a time when your national spirit was able to afford a great deal more than what we in Britain could. You had greater optimism." Fizzy pop culture, American style, seemed easygoing but a little wild too. Even these days, says Bonn's Christian Hoffmann, who has organized a club of Americaphiles, "here in Germany, Kultur is either folk songs sung around the campfire or Bach...
Perhaps scholars ought to reveal sources of funding for the reasons Professor Hoffmann offers. But I disagree with Professor Hoffmann that "concealment (of sources of funding) deprives them (readers and students) of an important element in evaluating research." Quite the contrary, the source of funding is not important in evaluating research. Again it is the work itself that matters. If we should reveal sources of funding, why not also membership in any political organization that has an interest in a particular issue? Or should we make obligatory an ideological autobiography to inform the reader about the axes about...
...doubt that, as Professor Hoffmann suggests, anyone was drafted to work for the OSS in World War II. In my letter, I clearly stated that scholars are under no obligation to assist the CIA. To say that American intelligence would be improved if scholars offered help if they as individuals so desire, is hardly comparable, as Professor Hoffmann implied, to advocating state sponsored propaganda. While I have no objections to being labeled a neo-conservative--though my political views, no less than Professor Hoffmann's, deny such easy categorization--references to unnamed "ideologues" who are willing to justify any means...
...many dangers that neo-conservative ideologues overlook, in their crusade against the "evil empire," is the tendency to have our ends justify any means, and thus the erasing of the differences between the ethical standards a liberal society must maintain, and those of its enemies. Stanley Hoffmann Chairman Center for European Studies
...HRIDF is also appealing to the faculty. C. Peter Timmer, Black Professor of Agriculture and Business, Stanley H. Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, and Diana L. Eck, professor of Hindu religion, have agreed to write letters to their colleagues on behalf of the HRIDF...