Read any tendentious books lately?

The Jerusalem Post has an opinion piece by Daniel Pipes, who says books make up the heart of the scholarly enterprise. Articles disappear, media analyses vaporize, and classroom lectures effervesce; books endure. They build the edifice of knowledge and potentially acquire an influence across the generations.

He asks:
What sorts of books, then, are being written by today’s top scholars? And answers: a uniform leftist tone of hostility toward established institutions and an embrace of the radical fringe characterize the list.

March 31, 2004 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    April 2, 2004 at 4:54 am

    That’s interesting…
    There’ve been a lot of conservative books out there. How’s he basing his numbers?

    The conservatives are always complaining about the liberal bias of the media, but in more than a few places they have it locked down themselves – talk-radio as a prime example.

    In my opinion, it’s a cover for their own movements. The only things worth writing are things that attack current institutions – it’s the only way we will improve what we’ve got. We don’t need rah-rah cheerleading books saying everything we’re doing is hunky-dory. That’s a waste of tree-pulp. We need insightful criticisms of what we’re doing that can lead to improvement.

    Thus the only academic/scholastic literature which is worthwhile is anti-establishment stuff that analyzes what we’ve got and attacks it in some shape or form. From any viewpoint; liberal, conservative, anarchist, philosophical, etc.

    — Ender, Duke_of_URL

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