So if a study is critical of current foreign policy, the school could lose funding? What if the foreign policy is flawwed? Are they scared of critical analysis and dissent? I hope this never becomes a law.
On another note, I love how this right-wing think-tank fellow Kurtz calls programs with veiws he disagrees with "extreme and one-sided" It does give me the opportunity to finally get to use this excellent photo I found on the web:
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On Oct. 21, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that could require university international studies departments to show more support for American foreign policy or risk their federal funding. Its approval followed hearings this summer in which members of Congress listened to testimony about the pernicious influence of the late Edward Said in Middle Eastern studies departments, described as enclaves of debased anti-Americanism. Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a right-wing think tank, testified, "Title VI-funded programs in Middle Eastern Studies (and other area studies) tend to purvey extreme and one-sided criticisms of American foreign policy." Evidently, the House agreed and decided to intervene.
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