February 16, 2005
The writer is a professor of law at Harvard Law School.
To the editors:
In recent weeks many academics have rallied to the defense of Ward Churchill, an unkempt University of Colorado professor who, in a published essay, referred to victims of the September 11 attacks as “little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers.” It is tellingly hypocritical that some of these same academics now seek to strong-arm Harvard’s president for raising a plausible and empirically testable hypothesis at an academic conference.
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JEFFREY P. CLEMENS ’05
February 16, 2005