Here (for those interested) is a link to the latest billious twaddle emanating from Eddie Said’s lying hole (printed in Al Ahram Weekly). Quick summary: “Blah blah Zionism evil blah blah blah Sharon butcher blah blah blah Palestinian victims blah blah blah Three throws for a dollar? Cool! Six rocks, please blah blah blah Otherness blah blah.”

Okay, okay. I’ll play fair. Said in fact does use this space to condemn suicide bombing (as Matt Yglesias points out), but he does so only because those tactics are responsible for the bad PR the Palestinian “cause” has been receiving of late. Crass. And frankly, too little, too late.

To think: As a grad student, I was forced to read this guy’s intellectually bankrupt take on epistemology disguised as “historicist” literary theory.

Worse, you’d be shocked if I told you at how many folks in the humanities continue to hold such silly notions of knowledge and narrative, and how profoundly their adherence to such notions infects their teachings.

So I won’t tell you.

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