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A Wall Street Journal editorial then criticized Harvard for considering Kearns's tenure on the basis of "scholarship she would never publish" and charged that Goodwin's participation would turn Kearns's book into a "polemic."
Eighteen months after the publication of his book on slavery, "Time on the Cross," the controversy surrounding Robert W. Fogel, Burbank Professor of Political Economy and professor of History, has not died down. Recent weeks have even seen a distinct heating up of the scholarly polemic.
The editorial, which one Journal editor confided was aimed basically at Goodwin, said the co-authorship would turn a "piece of scholarship" into "polemic." It asked whether Harvard would grant tenure "on the basis of scholarship the author would never publish."
One of the lessons of Vietnam that Ford would like to ignore is that more than two decades of repression by a series of corrupt regimes supported by the U.S. could not stifle the will of the Vietnamese people. Even though more than a million people died as a result...
The editorial also said that Goodwin's co-authorship would turn a "piece of scholarship" into a "polemic."