The fog of war, which can overwhelm the senses of real soldiers, can also descend on academic feuds, and it seems to have done so on this one.
Unfortunately, it is in the details that the Dawkins Gould debate differs from those other well-known academic feuds, and this has been a source of trouble for evolutionary biology in general.
While leftish academics still feud over who said what about the Rosenbergs, right-wing intellectuals push further reforms, such as education vouchers.Previous periods of unfettered capitalism in America have usually led to leftish backlashes.
There is little drama -- mostly academic infighting, endless feuds over the meaning of the fossils -- in most of the years back in Europe.
"Footnote" is a crackling family drama that's entirely worldly, but it's also an acidly satirical comedy about intense, almost gangsterish feuds between academic factions — and about people who are too angry to stop misbehaving.
The enlightenment ideal of the cultivated gentleman of science and letters couldn't be more different from the reality of a beleaguered academic, navigating Byzantine minefields of feuds and passive aggressive communication (or lack thereof), and above all, a skeptical disdain for pleasure in any form.
Mogadishu is changing and hopes of a new epoch for Somalia have been boosted by the inauguration of a democratically elected leader, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, an academic with a background in reconciling feuding clans.
In 2007, after a highly publicized feud between Finkelstein and an academic opponent, Alan Dershowitz, Finkelstein's tenure bid at DePaul was denied.
"The Biographer's Tale" is an in-house literary fable, the house split in a three-way feud among the critical theorists, the academic scholars and the practitioners of writing: poets, playwrights, novelists.
