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External LinksHunting sits on the board of the Smith Richardson Foundation (2005) MORE LINKSDAVID GLENN Critics Assail Scholar's Article Arguing That Hispanic Immigration Threatens U.S.High levels of Hispanic immigration threaten to disrupt the political and cultural integrity of the United States, according to a controversial new article by the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, who is the chairman of Harvard University's Academy for International and Area Studies.
José Néstor Márquez In Samuel P. Huntington's febrile mind ...Not satisfied with casting the future of international relations as the struggle between White Protestants and the rest of humankind, Samuel P. Huntington has returned to piss in the well of civil society just one more time.
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PERSON PROFILESamuel P. Huntington
John Dolan HISPANIC PANICSamuel P. Huntington and the return of the Know-Nothings[EXCERPT]
What is surprising is that now, a century and a half after the Know-Nothings vanished in disgrace, Huntington feels free to promote his nativist hatred in print, and can be celebrated for doing so. Post-9/11 America, as John le Carre has said, has lost its mind. Huntington's screeching is a worthy contribution to the bedlam. Edward Said The Clash of IgnoranceHarvard University ideologist Samuel Huntington's deeply flawed theory of a "Clash of Civilizations" between "The West" and "Islam" is now being touted by politicians and the press as the new international political paradigm Huntington is the director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. The Olin, Bradley, and Smith Richardson foundations have made at least 20 grants controlled by Huntington between 1985 and 1999 totalling more than $5 million. Huntington's hypothosis is that: "...the fundamental source of conflict in [the] world will...be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future." Huntington's argument focuses on the supposed conflict between two mythological "civilization" constructs called "The West" and "Islam". Edward Said expertly destroys these notions of Huntington's that "The West" and "Islam" are somehow fixed and opposed entities; indeed, he shows that Islam, Christianity and Judiasm all derive from the same source, and that aspects of Islam have been interwoven into the fabric of so-called "Western" life since its inception. David Palumbo-Liu, Professor of Comparative Literature Director, Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University adds a footnote to Said's "Clash of Ignorance".
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MORE LINKSPeter Carlson / Washington Post Staff Writer Hey, Professor, Assimilate ThisLook out, folks! Samuel P. Huntington has kicked up a major cultural firestorm and unpleasant things could start flying at any moment.
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David Palumbo-Liu's footnote to Edward Said's "Clash of Ignorance"
