Robert Shibley: Unexplained Mysteries in Mohammed Cartoon Controversy - '...This cravenness in the face of controversy is a very bad sign for the culture of academia, which increasingly seems willing to privilege “sensitivity” and political correctness over the traditional rights to dissent and to discuss and research controversial topics. In 2005, one could almost understand the reluctance to publish the cartoons — after all, people were dying in the riots that the cartoons’ publication launched. But when, nearly four years later, an academic publishing house feels that it still cannot publish these historic cartoons for fear that violence will occur, that publisher has allowed the rage of the least rational and most violent to overwhelm the very real need for historical analysis of important events. That’s a grim precedent indeed.' [A book from Yale that's useless without pictures.]