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An open letter from Graham Larkin to Sara Dogan Sara Dogan 28 January 2005 Dear Ms Dogan, I am writing to ask you a favor. As you know, David Horowitz recently posted two critiques of my own writings on the Academic Bill of Rights in FrontPage Magazine and your own Students For Academic Freedom website. He did not, however, provide web links to the very articles he is criticizing. (These are published here and here respectively. I have since published another response.) Dr. Horowitz's refusal of my request is unfortunate, given that I politely asked him to post these links, or to republish the articles, in the interests of promoting "both sides" instead of just "half the story". Naturally, I find it frustrating that Dr. Horowitz chooses to speaks for me, instead of providing a link to my authentic writings. Since you are the president of an organization devoted to the noble ideal of "promot[ing] fairness, civility and inclusion," and since you have written sympathetically about "the problem of partisan indoctrination", I hope you can sympathize with my frustration over the limitations of the Horowitzian echo-chamber. If you can, please add links to Mr. Horowitz's responses to my articles here and here . I hope you will also consider posting my critiques in the form of independent articles. As you can see, this letter is posted on the CA-AAUP website. Please let me know whether or not I have permission to post your reply. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely, Graham Larkin
NOTE: This letter seems to have achieved the desired end. Although Ms. Dogan did not reply to my e-mail, I noticed that on February 1, the complete text of my latest letter was published, along with a response from David Horowitz, on both the FrontPage and Students for Academic Freedom websites. I am very grateful for this. - GL Back to Larkin-Horowitz Exchange
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