Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America (Policy Papers (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), No. 58.)
"Unquestionably, this is one of the most important books about understanding the Middle East written during the last half-century." --Jerusalem PostA case study in the broader trend of the universities reduced to irrelevance by the “post-modern” denial of objective truth. --Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2001Incisive and original...the failure Kramer documents affects Americans and Middle Easterners alike, not to mention others around the world. --New York Post, November 5, 2001Kramer has performed a crucial service by exposing intellectual rot in a scholarly field of capital importance to national well-being. --Weekly Standard, November 19, 2001Written in caustic, punchy prose...fresh, essential reading...a cluster bomb, and lots of scholars are likely to be hit. --Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 2001