Saturday, August 18, 2007
More Academic Free Speech Hypocrisy [Michael Rubin]
Cambridge University Press—in sharp contrast to Yale University Press—has agreed to recall and destroy copies of Alms for Jihad, a critically-acclaimed examination of terror finance which a Saudi businessman found inconvenient (I'd link to the Amazon.com page which listed the accolades, but Amazon has now erased the book's listing as if it has never existed). When those involved in terror finance-soiled charities sued Yale University Press over Matt Levitt's examination of Hamas, Yale University Press stood up to them, defended academic rigor and free speech, and won. How disappointing it is, then, to see that the American Political Science Association has chosen Cambridge University Press as a major sponsor for its annual meeting. Guess which books won't be available at APSA's book fair? My reviews of both books, here.
08/18 08:36 AM
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