1. Thinking a bit about Bernard Lewis & Richard Pipes, who both died in last few days. Both figures I had disagreed with on many issues but also, undeniably, genuinely learned & worth engaging with. Do they have heirs?
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3. It's hard to think of figures of comparable learning among contemporary right -- or am I wrong?
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4. To put it another way, I think there was a period where it was useful to read some intellectuals (say Hayek or Burnham) to try & understand the right. That's not true at all in Trump era, where you're better off watching Hannity.
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Pipes was correct to push back against revisionism, given that Soviet communism was the most murderous ideology ever to arise in Europe. It should never have been entertained for an inch in the free West.
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That's not what revisionism is. But. Whatever.
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My introduction to ~"free speech under threat on campus" was one of my POLS lecturers being put on Daniel Pipes' Campus Watch suspected anti Israel list.
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Pipes really knew his stuff.
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Their contributions are worse than zero. They actually misinformed readers. You should read the writing of the late Edward Said who debunked much of their BS.
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