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June 9, 2006

A Confederacy of Hacks

by AltHippo @ 4:48 pm. Filed under hacks

I just learned that Juan Cole got dropped from consideration for a position at Yale. While it’s impossible to know if this was a result of an organized campaign, I do detect a whiff of sulfur in the air: (Jewish Week)

Writing in the Yale Daily News on April 18, Rubin, a neoconservative who often writes about the need for a strong U.S. policy against Iran, accused Cole of having “abandoned scholarship in favor of blog commentary.”

The same day, Eliana Johnson, a Yale undergraduate, and Mitchell Webber, a Yale graduate who is now a law student and a research assistant for Alan Dershowitz at Harvard Law School, published an op-ed in the conservative New York Sun. Echoing many of Rubin’s points, Johnson and Webber referred to Cole as the “professor best known for disparaging the participation of prominent American Jews in government.”

One facet of the modern conservative movement that I find particularly disturbing is a reactionary mechanism that destroys (or, attempts to destroy) the livelihood of its critics.

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