Tenured Barbarians
It’s been many years since we have had occasion to mention Rashid Khalidi-enthusiast for the Palestinian cause, bosom buddy of Barack Obama, and the Edward Said (!) Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University-in this space. Back in June 2005, in a column called "Faculty follies," we quoted Khalidi’s thundering dismissal of what he called "the utterly spurious assumption that universities are strongholds of radical and liberal beliefs."
