Zaretsky's academic background obliges him to insert references to colleagues in the field, as if to give scholarly backing to assertions verging on the obvious.
He justifies his investigation with an assertion of scholarly daring – "this subject remains virtually taboo in academic circles" – and claims that his interest is less in what people think about the authorship question, more why they think it.
The most surprising factual error is the assertion that scholarly journals are "sold" to publishers.
But until now, they have been mostly content to put forward their ideas in scholarly books, their bolder assertions -- that a proclivity for rape is written in men's genes, for example -- stirring debate on the cocktail circuit and in the halls of academe.
Scholarly discoveries turned up.
Scholarly and fascinating.
Scholarly, fascinating and controversial.Biography and memoirCoolidge.
They also claim that the Handbook serves as an assertion that art education is a scholarly field, perhaps even to a fault through mostly ignoring qualitative issues regarding goals, expressive art form, and aesthetics.
They also question his credentials and say he is prone to overstating his own expertise, pointing to his inability to speak Arabic, the limited time he has spent in the Middle East, his lack of scholarly research, and what they say are overly simplistic assertions about the relationship between Islam and violent extremism.
Common sense tells us that begging is much more "conduct" than it is "speech". As then Circuit Judge Scalia once remarked: "That this should seem a bold assertion is a commentary upon how far judicial and scholarly discussion of this basic constitutional guarantee has strayed from common and common-sense understanding"...
An Israeli panel decided last summer to release the memoirs, but in an annotated scholarly edition that, it was hoped, would put Eichmann's assertions in perspective and prevent their use to discredit the verdict.
