Articles tagged: "Georgetown"

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Saudi Arabian Ties To Top American Universities

With the killing of Jamal Kashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Post, in Saudi Arabia, media outlets started churning out stories on President Trump’s past business deals with the Saudis, but have yet to examine the Arab nation’s very current economic exchanges with American colleges and universities.

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Not My Fair Lady

Christine Fair, the Georgetown political scientist who wished death and dismemberment upon the Republican half of the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee over their support of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has been placed on “research leave” by Georgetown University. Maybe she’ll learn something.

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How Fair Is Christine Fair?

The Georgetown women’s studies sage is in the news again, this time with a tweeted wish of death and castration to Republicans on the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

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Is There Truth In Academia?

A Jesuit who taught in Georgetown, and is in a position to know, says the quest will be more difficult than in generations past.

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Dionne At Harvard

The old joke is that those who can’t do teach, and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne has been teaching his brains out.

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Georgetown’s Middle East Bridge to Nowhere

Amid years of reports that Georgetown’s Middle East Studies program was being compromised by apologists for violent extremists, if not outright terrorists, the school has, if anything, doubled down on its approach.