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Juan Cole Watch: What does Juan Cole’s secret Love Affair with the CIA say about Academia?
Middle East Studies professor Juan Cole fancies himself something of a superstar among academic armchair-leftists, thanks in no small part to his mindless and puerile blog Informed Comment, which is apparently quite popular among other academic armchair-leftists. What are the “left-wing” credentials of somebody like Juan Cole, though? It remains something of a question. After […]
Juan Cole Watch: Why is Prof. Cole so concerned about Jesus’ wife?
September 26, 2012
Last week, when the story came out about an interesting papyrus containing an ancient Coptic text mentioning Jesus’ wife, Prof. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, naturally, felt the need to chime in on the topic via his lackluster blog, Informed Comment. The post, entitled “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from […]
The Myth of the Communist Witch Hunt: McCarthyism and the so-called End of History
May 16, 2012
by Patrick M. Dixon It has become a point of consensus in American historical understanding that the efforts of conservatives to rid the country of communists in the early Cold War were part of an irrational crusade against an imagined enemy. “Reds under the bed” are jovially referred to. The chief protagonist and poster child […]
Is Gay Marriage actually Conservative?
June 12, 2011
by Bruno Fournier Let’s face one of the most contentious issues of the contemporary U.S. culture wars head-on: Gay Marriage. What I am about to present here may seem an act of sacrilege to many, but that is because it is so infrequently attempted. The Gay Rights movement and the explosive issue of gay marriage […]
What’s happening in Wisconsin? I wish that I knew…
March 6, 2011
by Bruno Fournier Because the truth is that I don’t. Media coverage of the recent strikes and occupation of the state Capitol building has been surprisingly sparse. Of course, the People’s World—the hip, web-savvy scion of the old communist-affiliated Daily Worker—has been covering the story, and it comes right up with a few non-communist-affiliated Google […]
January 27, 2013
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