Cole Alert: The Light Dimming at Yale
According to Michael Rubin from PhiBeta Cons, at NRO:The Yale History Department has voted to extend Juan Cole an offer, although the sociology department and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies have yet to hold their votes (it's a joint appointment).
It will be interesting to see what happens next. When the Yale Corporation hosted a member who had violated U.S. laws regarding the boycott of Israel, an alumni revolt ultimately forced his resignation.
Many alumni are already raising questions about what this means for the reputation of the Yale History Department which had once prided itself on an emphasis on traditional research and fieldwork-Cole has never been to Iraq-but which seems to have cast it aside because of sympathy to Professor Cole’s politics.
Lest we forget, Yale's motto is: urim v'thummim which is light and truth.
[This phrase is taken from Exodus 28:30, a reference to a device worn on the High Priest's Breastplate in Biblical Israel. By tradition, two crystals, but there is no consensus on that. ]
posted by Alcibiades @ 2:46 PM
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