Despite Bard College’s radical reputation, the school has made it
its business to hire professors with conventional State Department
outlooks for key social science positions. They all fit neatly
into the New York Review of Books/New Republic/Atlantic Monthly
constellation of received wisdom. Those who stray outside this
framework of liberal pieties, like Joel Kovel, are likely to incur
the wrath of President-for-life Leon Botstein, the school’s dear
leader.
A friend alerted me yesterday to a blog article on the American
Interest website written by Jonathan Cristol, the director of the
Bard Globalization and International Affairs (BGIA) Program. A
careful study of Cristol’s writings will lead you to the
conclusion that the department is dedicated to promoting
globalization, or what we Marxists call imperialism. On January
29th, Cristol offered this opinion on developments in Tunisia and
Egypt:
Am I really arguing that these states should brutally suppress
the protestors and that the United States should encourage them to
do so? Not really. The optics of America supporting brutal
suppression would not be good for Washington. However, if these
governments wish to stay in power, the best means of doing so is
to scare the people sufficiently enough to stop them from marching
through the street.
full:
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/bard-college-luminaries-enemies-of-democracy-in-the-middle-east/
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