Juan Cole Quotes

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

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

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.