Dear UC Berkeley: I understand you have reasons, more or less good, for not firing John Yoo immediately. But there is no call to put puff-pieces about him in the magazine you send to donors. This is not making me any more likely to contribute. I'm not asking for displays of public repentance in publications like this, though that would be nice; just not rubbing my nose in the fact that I got my degree from a school which has as one of its faculty a man who helped make us a nation of torturers. Sincerely yours, Cosma Shalizi ('93).
Update: see also Marty Lederman at Balkinization.
The Running Dogs of Reaction; Learned Folly; The Continuing Crises
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