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On an Intellectual Level

Today on Tablet

by
The Editors
March 23, 2011

Today in Tablet Magazine, Mideast columnist Lee Smith points to the vanity of Western intellectuals as among the main reasons Western countries are now militarily involved in Libya’s civil war. “What forced the Europeans to act,” he notes, “were the scandals surrounding the British academic institutions … who’d enjoyed unseemly ties with Qaddafi.”

From the editors of Tablet Magazine.