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...less kindly: “A public intellectual is someone who shoots off their mouth publicly about something about which they’re not an expert,” says Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom...
...professors say, is all too eager to give professors a platform to express their views. “Having the title ‘professor’—particularly with a prestigious university attached to it—does convey a false impression” of expertise, Thernstrom says...
...problem to which Harvard is immune. “Clearly there are people at elite universities—including Harvard—who seem to spend a lot of time on TV and publish a lot of stuff I think is not rooted in scholarship,” Thernstrom says...
...fair to say there was a paralysis in making appointments, but Kirby’s exceptional diplomatic skill brought together...a Faculty that rarely agreed,” says Stephan A. Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of history...
...Thernstrom said he agreed with the dissenting e-mail...