Asuming half of you care, of course.
From the “Angry Arab News Service”
I had a chance to ask John Mearsheimer yesterday at the University of Chicago about his experience since the publication of his article (with Stephen Walt) and later book about the Israeli lobby. He permitted me to cite on the blog: he told me that he had published 11 op-ed pieces in the New York Times before the appearance of the article on the Israeli lobby. Two of those were solicited by the Times. He said that after the appearance of the article, he has not published one op-ed piece and the ones he sent were rejected. He said that his speaking engagements went through a steep decline as a result.
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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” ~ Voltaire
Maybe it’s because he spent his entire career talking about domestic politics are irrelevant and then wrote a book about how domestic politics have single-handedly shaped American policy on perhaps the most important foreign policy issue of our time? So people realized he is a self-contradictory idiot?
Well, it says the article that preceded it was commissioned in 2002 and looks like it came out in 2006?
Might be worth noting that the drop in op-eds started before the book. According to the NYT website last op-ed was on Iraq in 2003. Attributing to a book which came out 4 years later seems disingenuous and self serving.
Probably political bias. Crappy books aren’t usually a hindrance to publishing op-ed pieces.
Is this due to political bias or crappy book?
RT @cblatts: Quote that will make half my audience exult and half angered http://t.co/6oafNviPlW