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18 quotes by Juan Cole

John Ricardo I. "Juan" Cole (born October 23, 1952) is an American academic and commentator on the modern Middle East and South Asia. He is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he has written a weblog, Informed Comment (juancole.com) which is also syndicated on Truthdig.com.
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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

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Did you know that they introduced the 15 percent flat tax on individual and corporate income in Iraq? Something that some politicians very much... →

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I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank... →

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I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on... →

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My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy... →

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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not... →

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But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a... →

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I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy... →

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Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

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I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

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I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

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