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2/06/2003 01:00:00 AM | Timothy Profs and War Chien Wen on the Dartmouth Observer has some bad criticisms of Laura. But I don't understand Laura's mocking of the government department's neutrality (the type of argument she uses, about what speaking in a disappationate tone hides, works in many cases, but not here with this department not speaking). Nationwide, all or almost all of the prominent professors of international relations are AGAINST the war in Iraq. Kenneth Waltz, the founder of neorealism, is against it, as is offensive realist John Mearsheimer at U Chicago. These are not simply wishy-washy liberals (Mearsheimer thinks we should do everything to contain China. And don't even try 'IR professors are generally liberal' because IR's dominant theory is realism). I wonder why conservatives at the Dartmouth observer don't call for these professors to be on CNN? Stam is in the minority among his profession. Robert Jervis, Betts, and bunch of other names you read in intro (and advanced) IR are against a war in Iraq. So if you want to talk about 'dispassionate reasoning', how do explain that? Dartmouth Observer crap Also, it is hard to take conservatives like Vijay and Frank Webb seriously when they call for dispassionate discourse on the Dartmouth observer. I love 'em, but in person they are ideological. And any site whose administrators have Andrew Sullivan-like idiot awards (including one named after a current student) is hardly one that is engaged purely in promoting dispassionate discourse. What really belies the idea that they really have a variety of partisan perspectives is that they constantly assert things as if they were obvious and expect them not to be disputed when they would be controversal in another context. Those awards often present something as idiotic when it's debateable (witness Mr. Stevenson's long post about one award, in which he lifts the ideas of Micheal Walzer, and also 'slanders' Peres by basically calling him anti-Zionist as if that was a matter of clear fact). As for the observer being multi-partisan: that is what their mission statement said now, but they can hardly pretend they didn't once claim otherwise: when I first looked at the observer, John Stevenson was calling for less politics and partisanship. I think they took some of my and Laura's previous criticism of the concept of 'non-partisan' to heart. They should also understand where Laura is coming from now if they even want to pretend to have a site that forsters interesting intellectual exchanges and encourages openness to understanding a wide variety of 'multi-partisan' perspectives. For now, they have mostly a bunch of conservatives adopting this pose of prentiousness dispassionate (and false) intellectualism. perma link |
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