What are universities for again? So, I think our "takeaway" (did I just say that? ugh.) from the NY Times reaction against the Pope's talk at the University of Regensburg, as well as Larry Summers's comments at an academic conference at Harvard last year, is that for the elite media seeking the truth isn't the proper function of the university. First and foremost it must not offend (with exceptions: evangelicals, Catholics, Mel Gibson, neocons, etc..)
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On the wall between faith & reason: "Mr. Islam, tear down this wall!"
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From our Unintended Irony Department: Thomas Fleming's loathing of America alters what could've been a interesting critique into a self-indulgent rant. He treats words and argument the way he claims Americans treat food, i.e. no self-restraint. Evidence? "[Americans] are hardly better than the violence-crazed Muslims..." He and Rosie O'Donnell should get together. They do say that the far left and the far right eventually end up indistinguishable from one another.
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Clinton aide Leon Panetta on Bill Clinton (in The New Yorker):
"The method he uses to live with himself is to make a clear and precise argument that this was something that others had done to him and not that he had done to himself,” Leon Panetta said. “Because of his brainpower, he can create a logic for anything. But deep down he would be such a good person if he could just accept the fact that he screwed up and made mistakes, and move on.”
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