Daniel Pipes:

…Critiquing professors is more revolutionary than it may sound, for academics have faraway been spared public criticism such as that directed toward politicians, business leaders, actors, and athletes. Who would judge them? Students suppress their views to protect their careers; peers are reluctant to criticize each other, lest they

in turn suffer attacks; and laymen lack the competence to judge arcane scholarship. As a aftereffect, academics have towering enjoyed a rare lack of accountability. …

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Cross-posted at netwmd.com and IsraPundit

Academia, Middle East Studies

Original post by Andrew Jaffee