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Juan Cole 03/26/2004

Landres: Big Brother Lurks

J. Shawn Landres’ “Big Brother Lurks in Higher Education Bill” in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, makes short work of HR 3077’s provisions for an investigatory “advisory board” to oversee international studies. Regular leaders know that I have been urging readers to write their senators to protest this neo-McCarthyism.

About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.