tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post2945961363164870324..comments2024-03-19T01:52:00.810-05:00Comments on Althouse: The Dean of Harvard Kennedy School tells you you're wrong if you think the title "Visiting Fellow" is an honorific. Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72179185430206178932017-09-15T22:41:21.093-05:002017-09-15T22:41:21.093-05:00In general across the School, we do not view the t...<i>In general across the School, we do not view the title of “Fellow” as conveying a special honor; rather, it is a way to describe some people who spend more than a few hours at the School.... </i><br /><br />This is misleading. Most Fellowships are quite prestigious, and would be something you would put prominently on your resume. <br /><br />Zachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02284350648793830503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-32001469532452600562017-09-15T20:05:09.419-05:002017-09-15T20:05:09.419-05:00To quote the pull quote from your link: "Proo...<i> To quote the pull quote from your link: "Proof that Alger Hiss was not a spy would have significant implications for historical interpretations of the Cold War era."</i><br /><br />I told you Cookie was sad when Stalin died.<br />Michael Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18127450762129879267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-31187579725500224562017-09-15T18:59:49.091-05:002017-09-15T18:59:49.091-05:00AA asks "Why cave in?"
Because that'...AA asks "Why cave in?"<br /><br />Because that's the default learned behavior of the modern American college/university administrator.David-2https://www.blogger.com/profile/00127191861958067004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-28281551254584128612017-09-15T17:49:02.994-05:002017-09-15T17:49:02.994-05:00@ Ralph L The Kennedy School is only one of many ...@ Ralph L The Kennedy School is only one of many graduate schools that are part of Harvard University- Medicine, Business, Law, Public Administration (Kennedy), etc. There were a total of 22,000 students in all departments of the University in 2016. The College (undergraduate) student body is about 5,000. Each school is headed by a Dean who reports to the President and Fellows. There is also a Board of Overseers that acts as an adjunct to the Fellows. Both were formed by the original charter of Harvard College. <br /><br />The Kennedy school is just as much a part of the University as the Medical School - although of considerably less value to the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81012366037610495342017-09-15T17:12:25.770-05:002017-09-15T17:12:25.770-05:00How independent of Harvard is the Kennedy School?
...How independent of Harvard is the Kennedy School?<br />I suspect we shouldn't mix them up too closely.<br /><br />Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-87414981981995082832017-09-15T16:57:54.130-05:002017-09-15T16:57:54.130-05:00Visiting feller.Visiting feller.Char Char Binks, Esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10649888089413308406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34881260422383262862017-09-15T16:34:08.133-05:002017-09-15T16:34:08.133-05:00@Virgil Hilts you are right on the money. The Har...@Virgil Hilts you are right on the money. The Harvard Corporation is known formally as "the President and Fellows of Harvard College". To be a visiting Fellow can be thought of as being one step below an honorary degree recipient in terms of how Harvard values one's accomplishments. There is something about the air in Cambridge....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-76823199790847771082017-09-15T16:26:49.713-05:002017-09-15T16:26:49.713-05:00My congratulatory note to Harvard president Faust:...My congratulatory note to Harvard president Faust:<br />"Dear President Faust;<br /><br />The offer of a visiting fellowship to Manning at the Kennedy School was poorly thought out and an insult to average Americans, particularly those who have served their country with honor.<br /><br />I heartily commend the withdrawal of the offer and recommend that the Dean of the Kennedy school be sent to re-education camp until he obtains a better grasp of reality."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62103146286045464712017-09-15T16:26:30.648-05:002017-09-15T16:26:30.648-05:00Fellow, not a fellow, Fellow, not a fellow.
I sen...Fellow, not a fellow, Fellow, not a fellow.<br /><br />I sense a trend.JAOREhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11819907966430540035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-35588894524694525582017-09-15T16:07:25.143-05:002017-09-15T16:07:25.143-05:00Anyone asserting Alger Hiss's innocence at thi...Anyone asserting Alger Hiss's innocence at this late date is not very familiar with the case. I am glad there is a new book asserting his innocence. It is important that people still defending the Communist underground be impoverished as quickly as possible, even by the cost of a book. Amadeus 48 https://www.blogger.com/profile/15907486643353591432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-51783885646800770902017-09-15T15:19:41.170-05:002017-09-15T15:19:41.170-05:00In nonacademic contexts, the word "fellow&quo...<i>In nonacademic contexts, the word "fellow" distinctly refers to a man</i><br /><br />Well, "a fellow" is masculine in normal use, yes.<br /><br />But, say, "fellow ____" is not remotely; "fellow travelers" aren't all male, nor is there any dissonance in "My fellow women...", is there?<br /><br />If "visiting fellow" is interpreted - reasonably! - as "visiting fellow academic", not "a fellow who is visiting", it's ungendered.<br /><br />Sigivaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152366541957466049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-20553210184734820562017-09-15T15:13:24.198-05:002017-09-15T15:13:24.198-05:00"-I think she is a hero."
1. She is a ..."-I think she is a hero."<br /><br />1. She is a he.<br />2. Of course you think he's a hero. I'd be more surprised if you didn't.Jim athttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02271099587684174816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-73083584410395410122017-09-15T15:09:56.409-05:002017-09-15T15:09:56.409-05:00"Indeed. So it stands to reason that a govern..."Indeed. So it stands to reason that a government organization so intimately tied to to the entire history of the Cold War would have a vested interest in confirming the self-serving historical interpretation that we have so long claimed as truth."<br /><br />Read the trial transcripts and the testimony of the witnesses.<br /><br />Just because you want something to be true doesn't mean it's ever going to be true.Rustyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00938263272237104128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-17115280680015244782017-09-15T14:51:39.564-05:002017-09-15T14:51:39.564-05:00Can you imagine the outcry at Harvard if the Kenne...Can you imagine the outcry at Harvard if the Kennedy School had made Joe Arpaio a Visiting Fellow (so they could ask him hard questions, of course)? Can you imagine the Kennedy School would ever have done such a thing?Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11386165669907559416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16806212368480393582017-09-15T14:27:42.722-05:002017-09-15T14:27:42.722-05:00[As an aside: I got into reading about Soviet inte...[As an aside: I got into reading about Soviet intelligence work through reading about the history of our atomic program, specifically the development of the hydrogen bomb. A very good book I recommend is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Sun-Making-Hydrogen-Bomb/dp/0684824140" rel="nofollow">Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb</a>. That's an Amazon link but use the Professor's portal if you buy it. The Kindle version is only $10! It is a good book for learning about US history, the technological challenges of designing and testing a thermo nuke (esp. back then, w/o computer power), and the successful effort of the Soviets to steal (or be given!) important secrets--all with the backdrop of the Cold War. Really a good book--it touches on the philosophy of nuclear deterrence/warfare, as well.]HoodlumDoodlumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591221162603652473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90605518183330734102017-09-15T14:22:26.676-05:002017-09-15T14:22:26.676-05:00Yeah, I mean, skepticism is healthy and skepticism...Yeah, I mean, skepticism is healthy and skepticism about spies/intelligence work is not just healthy but vital, sure. I wouldn't expect anyone to say "Hiss was a spy 'cause this guy says so." I'm not even disagreeing with an assertion that it cannot be definitively proven that Hiss was ALES or was a spy at all...I'd bet most serious investigators will admit it's not 100% certain with the information the public currently has.<br /><br />But if the objection to a pretty widely (but not universally) held conclusion (that Hiss was ALES and was an important Soviet spy) should rest on something, and that something ought to be subjected to the same kind of standards as the evidence and argument on the other side is. <br /><br />But we're all friends here, we all friendly fellows.HoodlumDoodlumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17591221162603652473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83612309238538670252017-09-15T14:12:24.771-05:002017-09-15T14:12:24.771-05:00I find it helpful to go to the Venona intercepts w...I find it helpful to go to the Venona intercepts when discussing who was (or was not) a Soviet tool in the early days of the Cold War. One of declassified 1945 messages makes reference an American code-named “Ales”. The message identifies Ales as a Soviet agent working in the U.S. State Department and as someone who accompanied FDR to Yalta Conference and then flew to Moscow. That lines up rather perfectly with Hiss.Darryl Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08892826308784632546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18046942936267050542017-09-15T14:11:27.660-05:002017-09-15T14:11:27.660-05:00Robert Cook:
I should clarify that I bear you no ...Robert Cook:<br /><br />I should clarify that I bear you no ill-will for your opinion, though I think it is not one of your better ones. -- I appreciate your contributions to these threads.<br /><br />I also apologize for any whiff of condescension you may detect in my posts. It is an unintended and unfortunate defect in my writing style.TestTubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16763699098149738488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-4876633161059939812017-09-15T14:05:28.748-05:002017-09-15T14:05:28.748-05:00Robert Cook:
I feel no obligation to re-litigate ...Robert Cook:<br /><br />I feel no obligation to re-litigate the case of Alger Hiss. Hiss, like Bradley Manning is an example of a grotesque. In the case of Manning, a physical as well as a psychological grotesque.<br /><br />Grotesques can be instructive -- although what you learn from them is seldom what they mean to teach you. <br /><br />They generally don't belong in a fellowship, unless there is some special area of genius that lies outside their grotesqueness -- such as Dr. William Chester Minor, insane killer who also was an important contributor to the OED.<br /><br />Manning has no such area of expertise. Nor has he the gift of introspection, which might allow him to provide some insight as to his grotesque nature. His present value, such as it is, is a sort of specimen to be studied. <br /><br />Not fellowship material.<br /><br />TestTubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16763699098149738488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-70702820277171391672017-09-15T14:03:48.886-05:002017-09-15T14:03:48.886-05:00Robert Cook
The Brady book on Hiss should be read ...Robert Cook<br />The Brady book on Hiss should be read with the knowledge that Brady was a friend of Hiss. She sallies paranoia to her case that is for sure.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08258681007386089907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90961146374026166172017-09-15T13:43:58.583-05:002017-09-15T13:43:58.583-05:00Historians' Muted Response to the Vassiliev Pa...<a href="http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/106101" rel="nofollow">Historians' Muted Response to the Vassiliev Papers Is Surprising.</a><br /><br />The Hiss was innocent bailiwick is entirely built on conjecture, conspiracy theory, and absurd No True Scotsman fallacies like "...and no spy agency (Russia’s included) would have employed anyone as erratic as Whittaker Chambers, who sent postcards to his college friends while he was presumably training with intelligence operatives."<br /><br />As usual, Cookie proves conclusively that he knows not a whit of the subject he chooses to pontificate on. A study of the history of real spies, the self-confessed variety shows that erratic, even pathological behavior is tolerable as long as they are productive, witness the behavior of Guy Burgess, a man repeatedly arrested on suspicion of buggery in public lavatories, and Andrew Daulton Lee, who ran a major cocaine smuggling operation while serving as Christopher Boyce's contact with the KGB.<br /><br />There are many kinds of spies, and most of them aren't professional intelligence officers like Rudolf Abel. Most are persons who are part of the society of the nation-state being targeted who have direct access to secrets or access to others who have access to secrets. These spies are traitors to their own. They choose treason for many reasons — sometimes out of conviction, but more often out of despair. They are homosexuals fearful of exposure or resentful of their fated proclivities. Or they are gamblers or drug users who have stolen to finance their addictions. Or they are neurotic paranoids nursing grudges for wrongs done to them, real or imagined. Or they are fantasists who, coveting the supposed glamour of the spy trade, imagine themselves to be James Bond. They are not stable as a rule; they are often erratic. They need supervison, which is why case officers, the trained professionals, exist.<br /><br />That Cookie would promote a book written by authors who evidently are ignorant of the history of espionage shows a severe lack of intellectual honesty. Quaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81649564663316164732017-09-15T13:42:16.106-05:002017-09-15T13:42:16.106-05:00Where is Milo's Fellowship? Do only anarchist...Where is Milo's Fellowship? Do only anarchists, malcontents and bomb throwers get 'Fellowships' from Harvard these days?<br /> <br />What message does THAT send?FIDOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04768886981584556497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-72941728561510011092017-09-15T13:06:33.068-05:002017-09-15T13:06:33.068-05:00Sorry but at Harvard the word Fellow does carry ++...Sorry but at Harvard the word Fellow does carry ++ connotations. The Society of Fellows at Harvard is a famous and long-standing elite group of selected students and scholars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Society_of_Fellows<br /><br />Virgil Hiltshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15725950903829582668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75920638900492407752017-09-15T13:04:46.006-05:002017-09-15T13:04:46.006-05:00"A holder of a certain type of fixed-term aca...<i>"A holder of a certain type of fixed-term academic position or fellowship, which is typically stipendiary and held on condition of pursuing a specified branch of study." So I think Elmendorf's assertion is believable</i><br /><br />Of course it's honorary. They don't offer it to anyone off the street who wants it. It's granted to a specific individual based on some sort of qualification or desirability, and evaluation that he/she can add value to the university. James Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12351535910140039924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-74386150100170525552017-09-15T13:04:11.466-05:002017-09-15T13:04:11.466-05:00We did not intend to honor her in any way or to en...<i>We did not intend to honor her in any way or to endorse any of her words or deeds, as we do not honor or endorse any Fellow.</i><br /><br />Bradley Manning was an admirer of Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, later becoming one of most productive contributing sources. When Manning committed his criminal breach of U.S. military law Assange was a hero to left generally and to Harvard specifically since the embarrassed party was a Republican president. However, since the publication of <i>What Happened</i> Assange has become a non-person, a later day Bukharin, consequently anyone associated with Assange must be a saboteur in league with Donald Trump.Quaestorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13688608372863540573noreply@blogger.com