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> The attack on Dr. Huntington.. led by Serge Lang, a Yale mathematician.. on leave at Harvard, who.. gathered and sent to all Academy members over the past year what he calls ''a ton of documentation'' challenging Dr. Huntington's scholarly work, as ' #pseudoscience '' and ''nonsense.''.. he used mathematical equations as a ''shorthand way'' of summing up a complex argument rather than as a rigorous quantitative tool.
https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prominent-harvard-scholar-barred-by-science-academy.html
#SamuelHuntington #SergeLang #PoliticalScience
PROMINENT HARVARD SCHOLAR BARRED BY SCIENCE ACADEMY

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> The #NationalAcademyOfSciences, the nation's leading honor society for scientists, rejected a prominent Harvard political scientist today after a bruising internal struggle over whether his work amounted to ''#pseudoscience'' in which equations were used to dress up mere #PoliticalOpinion... #DrHuntington has twice been judged one of the top 10 #PoliticalScientists in polls of his peers, and he ranked sixth.. in the number of times his work was cited in.. the early 1980's.
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> The first time I met #SamHuntington, I was not yet his student; I was an intern for the #NewRepublic. I was still an undergraduate at Yale, and there was a peculiar campaign being waged by a Yale math professor named #ergeLang to deny Sam Huntington a seat in the National Academy of Sciences...
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/135155
#FareedZakaria #sycophant?
Fareed Zakaria: Remembering Samuel Huntington | History News Network

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> During the ’80s, a decade of deadly state-sanctioned violence, Huntington visited South Africa as an unofficial adviser to Botha’s government... To Huntington it was simply a theory, one he would just as easily write in a textbook as in a brief to Botha’s government. Today, it is what keeps the prospects of a child born in affluent Sandton a world apart from those of a child born in the impoverished township of Alexandra, just 18 minutes away.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/23/southafrica-apartheid-huntington/

#SamuelHuntington

The Harvard Professor in Apartheid South Africa’s Corner | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson

The legacy of apartheid is still apparent in South Africa; it’s a legacy that has perpetuated the conditions of racism and poverty. Part of that legacy traces all the way to Cambridge, Massachusetts — to Samuel Huntington.

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> why is #SamHuntington still talking about consociationalism, when his own theory tells us it cannot happen? #Consociationalism .. involving negotiation among elites.. would give #SouthAfrica a democratic facade without changing the basic inequities of #apartheid. It would include Black faces in leadership, but would require massive repression of Black aspirations.. continue to restrict popular participation decision-making at all levels.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/11/5/mr-huntington-goes-to-pretoria-pperhaps/
#SamuelHuntington
Mr. Huntington Goes to Pretoria | News | The Harvard Crimson

Perhaps it is an occupational hazard: political scientists, even more than academics in other fields, seem to want to see

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You're left wondering how they (Samuel Huntington and Fareed Zakaria....) take themselves seriously... It must be a suit thing, like a billionaire thing.. They are like Elias in Primo Levi's _Is This A Man_? like some sort of "atavism... better adapted to .... conditions of..." BS.