The Times printed an very interesting Op-Ed piece by Stanley Fish yesterday, on the occasion of his retirement from Deanhood, about the relationship between the academy and politics. I'm not up on my Fish, but this seems like a retraction, or an apology. Is that right? In any case, I'm surprised it hasn't pricked the ears of P. C. so far. Click it while it's hot, before the ol' NYT revokes reading privileges.

I'm inclined to say I agree with Fish here; although I still think everything is political, I'm hoping there's some truth to his separation here between, on the one hand, a quest for truth, which must have a political dimension in spite of its impartial aims, and on the other hand, overtly political action—that is, attempts by professors to radicalize their students or their readership.

I, for one, am not qualified to delineate the separation between them, but I'll drink to that separation, if there can be one.