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...read the excuses of professors who now justify their silence in the lead up to that war. We are also grateful that many faculty members who are leading experts on international security did voice their concerns, including an advertisement in The New York Times signed by Professors Stephen M. Walt (Harvard), Stephen W. Van Evera (MIT) and dozens of others before...
...Allen Ginsberg and I used to talk about this - our spiritual ancestors. We would make a little game of 'Who's on your family tree'. Allen had William Blake and Walt Whitman; he thought Blake, Whitman and himself were a direct line. And he lived that line, and to his dying day, he was studying Whitman and Blake, and his own work resonates these...
...Walt, on the other hand, seems to thrive in areas of controversy. Since the war, his paper “The Israel Lobby,” an extended critique of the influence of advocates of Israel on U.S. foreign policy, has kept Walt and his co-author John J. Mearsheimer in the center of a fierce public debate...
...Ivory Tower mentality is more pronounced now than it was when I started graduate school, and I think that’s unfortunate,” Walt said. “If we spend all this time learning how international politics supposedly works and learning about these issues and then remain silent...when the issues of the day are issues that we are supposedly expert on, it’s both regrettable and irresponsible...
...give academics tenure and then they never use the freedom that tenure is supposed to provide,” Walt said. “It’s hard to imagine anything a country does that’s more important than when it goes...