tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post3716407826678254179..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: "It would be a horrid shame to see President Sarkozy’s son intermix."Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-56061548750850348852008-08-06T01:38:00.000-04:002008-08-06T01:38:00.000-04:00I see echoes of Cohen's confused free speech argum...I see echoes of Cohen's confused free speech argument in the claims that criticizing the Mearsheimer/Walt paper as anti-semitic stifles free speech - arguments like this end up getting made, for example, in <A HREF="http://www.juancole.com/2006/04/petition-to-conference-of-presidents.html" REL="nofollow">this</A> <A HREF="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/875967959#body" REL="nofollow">petition</A> which calls such criticisms "hostile to academic freedom of speech and inquiry and ... hostile even to the first amendment of the US constitution," as well as <A HREF="http://web.archive.org/web/20070514091645/http://www.tnr.com/blog/openuniversity?pid=80609" REL="nofollow">here</A>, where political scientist Alan Wolfe refers to this as censorship.alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00798779972194205640noreply@blogger.com