Here’s an anniversary not to celebrate. It’s twenty-five years since the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Columbia University is whooping it up with a parade of Said acolytes, all of thm lavishing praise on their political-intellectual hero. You can read about the festivities at Martin Kramer’s blog, Sandstorm. and in Jonathan Harris’s NRO piece from yesterday .But if you want to mark this anniversary the right way, scroll down to where Kramer has made web accessible for the first time his powerful critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism (chapter two of Kramer’s important book, Ivory Towers On Sand). And for my own skewering of Said, look here.