20 Years Later: Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle East Studies in America - Martin Kramer

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Sept. 10 2021

Published six weeks after 9/11, Martin Kramer’s Ivory Towers on Sand rebuked professors of Middle East studies who championed one failed intellectual orthodoxy after another – even as they missed the real story, such as the rise of Islamism. Have Middle East studies improved or further degenerated since 2001? What can outsiders do to help?