Begging to Disagree

Diary of a Mad Law Professor

December 20, 2001 | This article appeared in the January 7, 2002 edition of The Nation.

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I've been trying to explain to my 9-year-old what fundamentalism is. He reads enough of the news to have learned that we are at war with a "fundamentalist Islamic regime" in Afghanistan. But he has classmates who identify themselves as fundamentalist Christians. . . Why is fundamentalism such a bad thing, he wants to know.

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Patricia J. Williams

Patricia J. Williams, a professor of law at Columbia University, was born in Boston in 1951 and holds a BA from...

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