Editing Samuel P. Huntington (section)

==National Academy of Sciences controversy==
In 1986, Huntington was nominated for membership to the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]]. The nomination was opposed by [[Serge Lang]], a Yale University mathematician inspired by the writings of mathematician [[Neal Koblitz]], who had accused Huntington of misusing mathematics and engaging in [[pseudo-science]]. Lang claimed that Huntington distorted the historical record and used pseudo-mathematics to make his conclusions seem convincing. Lang's campaign succeeded; Huntington was twice nominated and twice rejected. A detailed description of these events was published by Lang in "Academia, Journalism, and Politics: A Case Study: The Huntington Case" which occupies the first 222 pages of his 1998 book ''Challenges''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Challenges|last=Lang|first=Serge | author-link = Serge Lang |year=1999|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0avTrkyT1VcC&pg=PA560 | publisher = Springer | location = New York | isbn=978-0-387-94861-4}}</ref>

Huntington's prominence as a Harvard professor and director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs led to significant media coverage of his defeated nomination to the NAS, including by ''The New York Times'' and ''The New Republic''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boffey |first1=Philip M. |date=April 29, 1987 |title=Prominent Harvard Scholar Barred by Science Academy |at=section A, page 1 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prominent-harvard-scholar-barred-by-science-academy.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020071149/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/29/us/prominent-harvard-scholar-barred-by-science-academy.html |archive-date=October 20, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Zakaria |first1=Fareed |title=Blood lust in academia: The professor's vendetta |magazine=The New Republic |volume=197 |issue=4 |date=July 27, 1987 |pages=16–18}}</ref> His supporters included [[Herbert A. Simon]], a 1978 laureate of the [[Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]]. Simon and Koblitz debated in multiple issues of ''[[Mathematical Intelligencer]]'', with other mathematicians joining in through ''Letters to the Editors'' column.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koblitz|first=Neal|date=1988-12-01|title=A tale of three equations; or the emperors have no clothes|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023843|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=4–10|doi=10.1007/BF03023843|s2cid=121312716|issn=0343-6993}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Koblitz|first=Neal|date=1988-12-01|title=Reply to unclad emperors|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023845|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=14–16|doi=10.1007/BF03023845|s2cid=123030288|issn=0343-6993}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Simon|first1=Herbert A.|last2=Koblitz|first2=Neal|date=1988-03-01|title=Opinion|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03028350|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=2|pages=10–12|doi=10.1007/BF03028350|issn=0343-6993}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Simon|first=Herbert A.|date=1988-12-01|title=Unclad emperors: A case of mistaken identity|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023844|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=1|pages=11–14|doi=10.1007/BF03023844|s2cid=123171596|issn=0343-6993}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Aubert|first1=Karl Egil|last2=Todorov|first2=Audrey|last3=Lazarus|first3=Andrew J.|last4=Simon|first4=Herbert A.|last5=Akin|first5=Ethan|last6=Koblitz|first6=Neal|date=1988-09-01|title=Letters to the editor|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023736|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=10|issue=4|pages=3–6|doi=10.1007/BF03023736|s2cid=189886367|issn=0343-6993}}</ref>