[PEN-L] Howard Botwinick's email??

I am trying to reach Howard. Anyone out there with his email address? Thanks in advance. Ahmet Tonak

Re: [PEN-L] Ward Churchill liberal lynch mob

Julio Huato wrote: If the real source of the campaign against Ward Churchill and M. Shahid Alam is the right wing establishment (with the tacit encouragement or at least silent tolerance of the White House), then why on earth should we focus our attacks on the liberals? Because: (1) the point of

[PEN-L] Larry Summers, campus corporate CEO

Summers Charts Course For a Global Harvard By Nicholas von Hoffman ... [Larry] Summers is the president of the richest and best-known brand name in American or, for that matter, world education. By the standards of the past, this energetic and decidedly clever man was an odd choice for the job.

Re: [PEN-L] Churchill/Michael Bellesiles

At 10:58 AM -0800 2/9/05, Michael Perelman wrote: Anyone who dares to challenge powerful forces risks retaliation if they have the misfortune to get a public hearing. I'm thinking about the case of Michael Bellesiles, who wrote about gun control. He was fired because of supposed errors in his

Re: [PEN-L] [Marxism] Ward Churchill liberal lynch mob

Julio: Fox has power. Real power. It's one of the big media networks in this country. Very influential. They don't need crookedtimbers. Honest, this is the first time in my life I heard of the crookedtimbers. I'm not kidding, I thought they were a hockey college team somewhere in the

[PEN-L] These kids today, what's wrong with

Generation Red, White And Gray If the children are the future, we're screwed. By Alexander Zaitchik Last week was a busy one on the creeping-fascism index. So busy, in fact, that I finally accepted there is even such a thing as a creeping-fascism index. Over the past few years, I've held fast to a

Re: [PEN-L] Larry Summers, campus corporate CEO

FWIW, the head of the California State University system, I'm told, has a license plate on his car (a beemer, I'd guess) that reads CSU CEO. JD

[PEN-L] Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy?

Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy? By Shea Howell Special to The Michigan Citizen Within an hour after the closing of polls in Iraq, George Bush declared a victory for democracy. Amidst bombs, bullets and threats many Iraqis, mostly in the Shiite- dominated South and the

[PEN-L] The Mandan smallpox epidemic

After having had a chance to review all of the material cited by Ward Churchill in relation to the Mandan smallpox outbreak of 1837, I am now persuaded that none of it supports his allegation that the US military conspired to infect them. In other words, the model of Lord Amherst, who did use

[PEN-L] Fwd: [Brechtevents1] U.S. Screening of 'Quiet Storm'

P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y Please join the Brecht Forum for a very special screening of 'Quiet Storm' on Wednesday, February 23 6:30 p.m. at the NYU Screening Room, 721 Broadway, 10th Floor, NYC This film is not available on DVD, and this is the ONLY copy available in the U.S. The

[PEN-L] Lynne Stewart Convicted

This is terrible news. February 10, 2005 Lawyer Is Convicted of Aiding Terrorists By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 3:26 P.M. ET A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients -- a radical Egyptian sheik --

Re: [PEN-L] Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy?

Although the author is of course right to be sceptical, she (he?) still holds an idealised view of democracy. Even in perfect peace it is subject to oppression and class struggle. The election in Iraq was about giving some legitimacy to certain bodies of armed men who are to hold some sort of

Re: [PEN-L] [Marxism] Ward Churchill liberal lynch mob

Louis Proyect wrote: You have to see this in terms of the beginning of the McCarthyite era. It was essential to consolidate an anti-Communist intelligentsia around projects like the Congress for Cultural Freedom, etc.--often with the covert support of the CIA as documented by Frances

Re: [PEN-L] These kids today, what's wrong with

One of my first papers in university was based on a survey (pretty small sample) of high school students (my old Passaic NJ high school) getting their views on the paraphrased 1st Amendment. Same basic results, same basic conclusions (I think my title was something like Yesterday's Ideals,

[PEN-L] open source biotech

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/10gene.html Open-Source Practices for Biotechnology By ANDREW POLLACK Published: February 10, 2005 The open-source movement, which has encouraged legions of programmers around the world to improve continually upon software like the Linux operating

[PEN-L] Academic repression

*I see that Jon Wiener has a new book coming out. Doug probably has seen it. Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower* by Jon Wiener http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=booksfield-author=Jon%20Wiener/102-5783442-4417708 I think that it would

Re: [PEN-L] Academic repression

-Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of michael perelman I think that it would be interesting to compile a list of people who have come under fire recently. I just heard an interview with Wiener and Gerald Markowitz, who is coming under fire for being