Jeffrey Rosen provides the most effective critique so far. I’m mulling a response.
THE GATHERING STORM: The Mullahs shut down Tehran’s universities for the week around July 9. More signs of how worried they are. We also know how viciously they have tried to stop the student revolution in recent weeks:
The government itself now admits to having arrested 4,000 demonstrators, of whom some 800 were students. The student movement says the numbers were even higher, and the actual number could well be upwards of 6-7,000. Many were killed.
Michael Ledeen, as usual, has the goods. (Via Jeff Jarvis.)
The Dish 