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David Horovitz writes today in the Jerusalem Post re: the “era-defining series of popular uprisings”: “Exacerbating our concern is the striking failure of our much-vaunted intelligence services to see any of this coming.”

We have heard that before, most recently when the money crashed, but first in our time with the fall of the Soviet Union. But all these things were well-predicted; it was just that they who made the predictions were completely ignored by the press.

It was suggested, then, that the fault fell to the feet of political science. It is not really a science, they said. Why don’t we just do without it and downsize by eliminating those departments of political science and sociology from the university? When history and literature and language were studied instead, knowing was complex and its practitioners vast.

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