[Peace-discuss] Harvard Law School Dean Search

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Actually, I think you’re skipping a generation (or more) here, Francis, in regard to the 'political class' (roughly the 20% of the US population who went to a ‘good’ college).

[1] Halberstam’s "The Best and the Brightest" (1972) discussed the assault on Vietnam by JFK’s contemporaries - born ca. 1920.

[2] Their sons and daughters were the baby boomers, including those who protested the Vietnam War, at Harvard and elsewhere.

[3] Their grandsons and granddaughters (b. ca. 1970) are now protesting Trump (who’s not PLU) in a desperate attempt to revive the Democratic party against the world-wide threat of populism.

[4] And the next generation are the much-touted millennials, who’ve grown up in an America of increasing (and accelerating) inequality - and have taken sides in it, in various ways.

These generational views are I think visible even in what Chomsky once called "the academy for the passive and obedient” in Harvard Square.

Regards, CGE


> On Jan 13, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Of course, what else do you expect from Harvard: “The Best And The Brightest” indeed. Now we are dealing with the Sons and the Daughters of The Best And the Brightest who gave us the Vietnam War.
> Fab.
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> Subject: RE: Harvard Law School Dean Search
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> OK people. Now you really have to admit this is the Sick Joke of the day: The President of Harvard sets up a Search Committee for a new Dean of Harvard Law School and includes on their Search Committee a notorious torture lawyer and war criminal. The Nazis had their law schools too. Ditto for the Illinois Nazis Law School.
> Fab
> Ed Norton Professor of Law
> Carl Schmitt College of Law:
> “Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!”
>  
>