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To this list now add Columbia literature professor Edward W. Said, the subject of a fiercely debated article in the September issue of Commentary . The article, by American-born Israeli legal scholar Justus Reid Weiner, contends that Said, who was born in Jerusalem to a Christian Arab family in 1935, has over the years deliberately obscured some facts about his early life, and amplified others, in order to create the impression that he was, of all things, Palestinian.
"There is war powers fatigue," says Brookings Institution scholar Richard Haass.
A fine scholar, a self-educated and proud man, but one whose favorite recreation was riding a huge tandem tricycle around Oxford and the surrounding countryside.
"Organic intellectual" is not strictly identical with "public intellectual," of course, and one wonders whether Russell Jacoby understands who exactly he's signed up to teach, given his understanding of the term "public intellectual" (in The Last Intellectuals he defines it as one who writes with "vigor and clarity," not as an activist or left-wing scholar).
But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.