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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: JohnM who wrote (55306)10/28/2002 10:51:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Well, perhaps the "dossier" aspect did step over the line, but the whole "McCarthyism!" reaction strikes me as overblown. After all, Pipes is hardly accusing anybody of hidden treachery as McCarthy did; he is criticizing (harshly, it's true) certain lines of published work, which presumably are routinely subject to public criticism. Pipe's whole argument is that the critical method has failed inside the closed circles of Middle Eastern Studies, so he wished to bring the work to public attention. Is that illegitimate?

Many of those criticized on the left react as if criticism were the same as censorship (Sontag complaining of being censored from the op-ed pages of the NY Times is a classic. I should be so censored.) There is a difference between criticism, McCarthyism, and censorship.
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