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Tuesday, June 07, 2005

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

“I still remember how as an undergraduate in the US, I was always baffled by political scientists who would ridicule Soviet academic scholarship as lacking ‘independence’ due to its being beholden to an agenda set and funded by the Soviet state, while being proud of their own scholarship and discipline, which was hardly ‘independent’ of US government funding as well as funding from the private sector which most often drove US state interests.”
Posted at: 6/07/2005 05:47:00 AM