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Political Allegiance Shouldn’t Bear On Merit Of Argument
To the editors:
Alan Dershowitz dismisses allegations of plagiarism on the grounds that I am a “hard-left” academic (“Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized,” letter, May 5). I understand neither what this means nor its relevance: the basis of rational inquiry is the merit of an argument, not its provenance.
NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN
Chicago, Ill.
May 8, 2006
The writer is a professor of political science at DePaul University.
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