November 7, 2008

What's So Bad About Being 'Professorial'?

By SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN

Immediately after the third debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, at Hofstra University, the CNN commentator Bill Bennett declared that Obama had failed to connect with voters.

"I thought Obama was flat, professorial, didn't rise to the occasion," said Bennett, who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, a law degree from Harvard University, is a former chairman of the esteemed National Endowment for the Humanities, and was — believe it or

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