https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2009/08/21/my-final-piece-on-yale-and-the-danish-cartoons-martin-kramer-connects-the-dots/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:16:10 -0400<![CDATA[We started out speculating about why Richard C. Levin, the President of Yale University, should have been involved in the decision by Yale University Press to bowdlerize Jytte Klausen&#8217;s book about the Danish cartoons by insisting that it be published without the cartoons or any other representations of Mohammed. Our guess: what a pal of Bertie Wooster&#8217;s memorably apostrophized as &#8220;Oof, Bertie, moolah, spondulicks.&#8221; As to the provenance of the right stuff: Araby, of course. Why else would the president of Yale take the extraordinary step of intervening in a decision by the &#8220;independent&#8221; publishing entity that just happened to bear the name &#8220;Yale&#8221;? I thank the correspondent who pointed me to this bijoux from a The Yale Daily News, 28 September 2006: &#8220;President Richard Levin said the press has the right to independently decide what to publish,&#8221; the YDN reported in a story about a controversial biography of the King of Thailand. They went on to quote President Levin: &#8220;The Yale Press is not a platform for anyone to speak their mind. Any book accepted goes under a scrupulous process for review. Access to publication on the University&#8217;s press is not like the opportunity to speak on Beinecke Plaza.&#8221;]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:37:51 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2009/08/21/my-final-piece-on-yale-and-the-danish-cartoons-martin-kramer-connects-the-dots-n116011