[aristeides]

The Professor shows a more balanced approach than one usually finds among modern day American Academics.

Bernard Lewis, although he is a professor emeritus of Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, is an octogenarian English Jew who originally trained as a barrister and spent WWII in British intelligence. He is thus very far from being typical of American academics.

[Ohioan]

Thank you. You have reassured me in my opinion of the typical Ivy League Professor.

For a brief moment, I thought that the level of scholarship might be improving.

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[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...He is thus very far from being typical of American academics...."

How true, how true. And fairly far from typical American anything--except that his ideas are undergirding the War Against Evil and Terrorism--in which typical Americans will die.

[rmlew]

Unfortunately, Edward Said's acolytes of Orientalism run Near-East Departments.