What would we do w/out people like Penny Pennyworth, who so effortlessly (one certainly gets the impression) show us the moral heights? I guess since he supported the war in Iraq, Vaclav Havel is a war criminal too. Or perhaps just a “war criminal.”

[Hoover's anticommunism] “might be interchangeably a womb or anus.” Or a dustbrush, or a soft-drink vending machine. Let a hundred flowers bloom! Some sentences are simply self-indicting, and the fact that that guy could write that and be taken seriously in the humanities at major universities in my country – well, to me it speaks for itself. The question is whether academics are listening, or even know how to.

he is mediocre at best and is very lucky to have had a teaching job for as long as he did.

Like all mediocre Profs who spend more time trying to indoctrinate students than teach them anything substantial he blames others for is own failings.

The fault is not in the Zinosts, brother Joel it is in you.

PS: he held the Alger Hiss chair, which is appropriate. Hiss was a traitor who spied for Stalin and Joel is still a Stalinist.

Omigod! I just did that and all of them have Zionist names. Well maybe not quite all, but more than half for sure. That explains the search committee’s instructions to launch a pogrom on poor Prof. Kovel!

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You mean the doormat that Botstein wipes his feet on? That board of trustees?

As a Bard alum, I can assure you that at least since its formal connections with the Episcopal (i.e., Anglican) church were vastly attenuated in the 1930s, following a temporary merger with Columbia University, the prevailing ideology at my alma mater was a damned sight closer to Prof. Kovel’s than to the “mainstream accepted opinions of everyday Americans”, of which James would not seem to hold in such high regard. Although even by Bard’s standards, Prof. Kovel was in the end, a little Too Friggin’ Much.

As for the painfully righteous –if too cutely named– Penny Pemberton, the “autocratic styles” of Presidents Botstein and the New School’s Bob Kerrey are limited to what the Boards of Trustees of both those private sector institutions find acceptable, at whose pleasure alone they continue to serve. Oh, and a good thing Ms. Penny that you probably never got within light-years of the Viet Nam war, lest we should discover whether you too might turn out to be a “war criminal”.

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Oh, you know what I mean. Henry Jackson-worshipping, New Labour, oleaginous investment banker warmongers. That sort of thing.

Oh, wtf, I may as well come clean: it was all done by me, acting on Mossad orders as part of its dirty tricks op against anyone who says anything against Israel. Ve zimply von’t allow such zings to happen.

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Don’t forget that Botstein’s autocratic style is second only to Bob Kerrey’s, the war criminal running the New School who was just the kind of politician that Harry’s Place has wet dreams over.