The Academy and Iraq: War College

1 December 2006 The New Republic article "The Academy and Iraq: War College" by Andrew Delbanco.  Note:   Prof. Delbanco writes "For the vast majority of students and faculty in places like Columbia--it's different for support and maintenance staff, who are more likely to have friends or family in the line of fire--war is an utter abstraction rather than an imaginable fact.  Perhaps the deepest divide in our country today runs between those for whom the war is a relentless threat to loved ones and those for whom it is a TV show to be switched on and off.  At places like Columbia, the former is our most underrepresented minority group."  See the 18 December Weekly Standard response and the 1 January response by Austin Byrd.