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Scrapbook Harvard's Disappearing Backbone Last week, THE SCRAPBOOK foolishly ran an item under the headline, "Harvard Grows a Backbone." We won't make that mistake again. Shortly after we...
...It will be interesting to see if the law students carve out an exception for inciting the murder of Jews (perhaps restricted to poets with a BBC pedigree), or if that will remain the franchise of the English department...
...Thirty-eight percent is actually the average voter turnout in midterm elections since 1970...
...This is incorrect...
...Boyle is also the leader of lonely struggles to impeach President Bush and seek international recognition of the independent nation of Hawaii...
...Oops Because of an editing error in John J. Dilulio Jr's election analysis "Mandate Mongering" (November 18), voter turnout for midterm elections since 1970 was said not to have exceeded 38 percent...
...It's "a matter of good faith and conscience," Boyle says...
...But you never can tell nowadays...
...Boyle has (or had) been using it with his own students since the day it was published...
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...okay, here's a little more context from the same interview: "I can understand how [Palestinian] suicide bombers feel," Paulin said...
...Nothing in Glennon's Times piece—about how the U.N...
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...This is the same man generally credited with first suggesting university divestiture of stock in companies doing business with Israel...
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...Last April, Paulin told the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram Weekly that these "Brooklyn-born" settlers "should be shot dead...
...In an apparently unrelated development, the Harvard Law School is simultaneously immersed in a debate over adopting a code restricting offensive speech...
...First things first: Francis A. Boyle is an idiot...
...Boyle's outburst against Glennon, after all, has occasioned hardly a sentence of critical commentary on the AALS listserve...
...I will have to steer people away from [Glennon] and Fletcher...
...We suspect that for them the words "First Amendment" serve the purpose of a ritual incantation...
...Paulin has complained that this line was wrenched from its context...
...I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them...
...It's a matter of high principle...
...He is an extremist, in other words...
...I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale...
...Stupid Law Professor Tricks Elsewhere in the groves of academe, University of Illinois professor Francis A. Boyle has announced plans to lead a nationwide law school boycott of Foreign Relations and National Security Law: Cases, Materials and Simulations, a widely used and well-respected textbook coauthored by Michael J. Glennon of the Fletcher School at Tufts University...
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...My parents judged that that spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eye, and I have waited fifty years to see the Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench...
...Now you can see the same thing at the finest American universities...
...No, the problem is the man who wrote the book, Professor Glennon...
...Or e-mail to scrapbook@weeklystandard.com...
...Translation: "We wouldn't want anyone to think that we're too spineless to take a stand against someone who declares open season on the Jews...
...Professor Peter Sacks was quoted in the Boston Globe on the reinvitation: "Free speech was a principle that needed upholding here...
...Michael J. Glennon, formerly the Democratic lead counsel to Frank Church's Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the late 1970s, is not a "Nazi...
...This reminded us of the timeless Winston Churchill send-up of Ramsay MacDonald in the House of Commons, January 28, 1931: I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Bar-num's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder...
...And Boyle, in any case, wouldn't know real nihilism if it crawled right up and sat on his lap...
...Students must not be exposed to this Nazi philosophy of international legal nihilism," Boyle explains, in an Internet "listserve" message distributed across the country by the Association of American Law Schools...
...We would like to think that his latest and, you might even say, 1930s-style effort—to ban a book—won't get very far...
...The passage of an additional 70 years has not made the spectacle any less revolting and demoralizing...
...Shortly after we applauded the university for disinviting Ulster poet and Oxford lecturer Tom Paulin—who had been scheduled to deliver the annual Morris Gray poetry lecture—Harvard's English department unanimously reinvited him...
...There's nothing wrong with the book itself, mind you...
...I think, though, it is better to resort to conventional guerrilla warfare...
...Now shut up and leave us alone...
...We'll honor whom we damn well please...
...The "speech" that Harvard's English teachers here pay obeisance to is arguably not protected by the First Amendment...
...Not to be pedantic, but the First Amendment also has nothing to do with the decision by a private university to bestow, or not bestow, the honor of delivering the annual Morris Gray poetry lecture...
...And in Noemie Emery's "Losers for the American Way" (November 25), we should have noted that the won-lost percentages for candidates backed by NARAL and EMILY's List were first compiled in an excellent analysis by the National Journal's Peter H. Stone and Shawn Zeller ("Business and Conservative Groups Won Big...
...of course, we don't actually expect the English faculty to understand constitutional law...
...Charter has "tragically" lost meaningful legal authority to prevent war—is an expression of "nihilism...
...Specifically, it was an incitement to murder American Jews who had become Israeli settlers...
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...One full professor calls another full professor a Nazi in public, and none of the other professors even raises an eyebrow—such is the level of contemporary discourse on American law school campuses...
...This was a clear reaffirmation that the department stood strongly by the First Amendment...
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...One witty correspondent, rightfully making fun of our "backbone" headline, forwarded us the Chronicle of Higher Education's report on Harvard's cave-in with the comment: "file under osteoporosis...
...Whose New York Times op-ed last Thursday— explaining the implications for international law of a non-U.N.-sanctioned war against Iraq—struck Boyle as "pretty appalling...
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Vol. 8 • December 2002 • No. 12
