MORE ON THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE TENURE FIASCO: I haven’t followed it closely enough to have an opinion — er, except perhaps that it’s pretty obviously some sort of a fiasco. Here’s a Harvard Crimson article, and Eugene Volokh has more. I think this is likely to get a lot more press shortly.

My sentiments, such as they are, are along the lines of Volokh’s. I think that “collegiality” is important, but we normally look at that at hiring time, and it would take an awfully major failure of collegiality — something nearly actionable — to be the deal-breaker on a tenure case, especially where, as here, the candidate is otherwise very strong, and apparently there’s widespread agreement that he’s a strong scholar. The whole affair seems quite odd, and I can’t help but feel that there’s more to the story than we’ve heard so far.

UPDATE: Edward Barrera reports rumors that Nat Hentoff will have a column on this.