What can you say about a story like this?
(“This way to the libertarian recruitment center” comes to mind, actually.)
by Ted on February 28, 2004
What can you say about a story like this?
(“This way to the libertarian recruitment center” comes to mind, actually.)
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Detached Observer 02.29.04 at 2:53 am
The really outrageous part of the story is this:
“Tara Bradshaw, a Treasury Department spokeswoman, confirmed the restrictions on manuscripts from Iran in a statement. Banned activities include, she wrote, ‘collaboration on and editing of the manuscripts, the selection of reviewers , and facilitation of a review resulting in substantive enhancements or alterations to the manuscripts.'”
By this criterion, no peer-reviewed journal could publish an article by an Iranian scholar. Incredible.
In my own field (applied math/electrical engineering), there is a large number of prominent Iranian scientists that get published regularly in American journals.
Sir 02.29.04 at 3:34 am
Libertarians would never do something like this, because, above all, they recognize the individual above the state. The state has very little right to tell an individual what how or whether they can interact with humans.
This article describes a NeoCon policy. But unfortunately, people on the left seem to possess a conceptual difficulty identifying the difference.
Belle Waring 02.29.04 at 3:43 am
Sir: you have missed Ted’s point. He is saying that this type of thing is apt to turn one to libertarianism, not that evil libertarians are always promoting free speech restrictions to advance their world-hegemonic goals.
Timothy Burke 02.29.04 at 4:29 am
What Belle said. Ted was *complimenting* libertarians, saying that indeed they never would do such a thing, and hence, “this way to the libertarian recruitment center”, e.g., this policy is the best possible way you could imagine to drive people to libertarianism.
Zack 02.29.04 at 4:58 am
This news has been doing the rounds of professional organizations for more than a year. I posted about it a couple of months ago.
According to my understanding, the embargo is not against Iranians but against Iran. The difference being that Iranians in the US or Europe etc. can still publish their work.
If we take this policy to its logical conclusion, shouldn’t there be a ban on accepting college applications from Iranian students as well?
bryan 02.29.04 at 8:45 am
‘But unfortunately, people on the left seem to possess a conceptual difficulty identifying the difference’
hoist by his own petard.
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