05-04-2017, 02:41 PM
(05-03-2017, 03:47 PM)Dill Wrote: A vetted panel of academics sound good, but we are living in the time of Trump (what do "experts" know about anything) and the Islamophobes will have their "experts" too. Not great scholars, perhaps (one thinks of Fox commentators like Sebastian Gorka), but that will become a fight over criteria of expertise.I'm curious about this statement. You've already discounted Sam Harris as someone who is credible on this subject, i.e. not a "great scholar" (Which btw, you'd have an insanely hard time making a rational argument on this point, but I digest). This leads me to my question, would you consider Christopher Hitchens a "great scholar"?
