Truth commissions have become a favorite way for new democracies to exorcise the demons in their past. As their popularity has spread, however, so has the controversy. Are these commissions truly the best way to achieve justice in transitional societies-or just a dodge that dictators use to escape accountability?

Martin Kramer takes on U. S. academe for missing the growing Islamist threat while celebrating nonexistent Muslim democratization. Some of his charges sting, but His blame game goes too far. And defunding universities would hurt rather than help