Recently a spate of comments showed up on my blog in response to an
article I wrote last year calling attention to Bard College’s increasing
ties to the American military. There is the matter of joint academic
conferences held with West Point, the military academy about a
half-hour’s drive from Bard. I was also intrigued by the role played by
Malia Du Mont, a Bard graduate who was leading a tour of the Pentagon. I
quoted from the Bard website:
Malia Du Mont ’95 is special assistant to the chief of staff in the
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and
Americas’ Security Affairs. Malia majored in Chinese at Bard, and after
graduation moved to China, where she spent a year teaching English and a
year doing graduate studies. In 1997 she moved to Beijing to serve as a
Defense Intelligence Agency intern and bilingual research assistant at
the United States embassy. “At Bard, joining the military never entered
my mind,” she says. “But I was interested in service to my country, and
living in China, I gained an appreciation of American freedoms.”
I can only conclude that a spike in readership of the article prompted
the comments. Usually I can track this down from a link to the article
that is documented in my WordPress dashboard but in this case there was
none. A bit of a mystery all in all but welcomed since there’s nothing I
love better than tweaking the nose of Leon Botstein and the sort of
students he has cultivated during his presidency-for-life. In the old
days it was beatnik poets and religious mystics. Now it is Pentagon
officials. Sigh.
full:
http://louisproyect.org/2015/06/09/in-response-to-a-pentagon-official-and-bard-college-graduate/
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