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exboyfil

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3. Aren't columnists supposed to be provocative?

Thu May 10, 2012, 12:25 PM

May 2012

Whether you agree or disagree with the opinion is firing her the correct response? You have created a martyr. It would make far better sense to engage her in the marketplace of ideas. For example one of the dissertation students could write a response that could run in the column as well. That is academic debate. Let her bring her intellectual guns to that response, and we will know her capability from the response. This is like the first salvo in a discussion - perhaps a meaningful discussion about the merits of these programs. Any academic program should be held up to scrutiny.

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FWIW, Jason Riley is himself black n/t RZM May 2012 #1

Too bad for her she isn't in the "good old days" then ... zbdent May 2012 #6

Of the right-wing variety. works for murdoch. and so did she. now she's with a HiPointDem May 2012 #8

I bet I know which one of them gets tied to the bed. n/t Ian David May 2012 #2

Aren't columnists supposed to be provocative? exboyfil May 2012 #3

No, this is not an academic debate. EFerrari May 2012 #5

Then you flush her out by having one of the three dissertation exboyfil May 2012 #9

Her employer decided she was a liability EFerrari May 2012 #10

She's written her response. She admits she didn't even read the dissertations. She's a winger HiPointDem May 2012 #11

Very nice catch. Thanks. EFerrari May 2012 #12

That woman is a fool and a liar. HiPointDem May 2012 #4

Worse than a fool, it seems. Provocateur. HiPointDem May 2012 #7

Part of the attack on public education: HiPointDem May 2012 #13