JIMMY CARTER, PALESTINIAN ART, AND BRANDEIS

Academe, Sep/Oct 2007 by Jankowski, Paul, Terris, Daniel

And it has encouraged such events. It has invited presidential candidates, among others, to visit the campus next fall to talk about the Middle East. Not that students or faculty need any encouragement: the flow of controversy and debate shows no sign of ebbing. Controversial speakers have come and gone in reasonable tranquility during the spring semester of 2007. Perhaps careful planning and innovations such as the Advisory Committee on Campus Events and the administration's guidelines have done something to marry controversy to civility. For my part, however, I have seen too much to settle into any premature sense of complacency, and to forget the words attributed to Michelangelo: Ancora imparo ("I am still learning").

PAUL JANKOWSKI

Jimmy Carter, Palestinian Art, and Brandeis

Paul Jankowski is Ray Ginger Professor of History and chair of the history department at Brandeis University.