Dear Editors,

It was brought to my attention that an article signed Greg Shupak published recently on the Jacobin blog mentioned me as having “backed Western intervention” in Libya. A proof, if needed, that being an academic like the author doesn’t make one immune to misreading.

Allow me please to remind the author and your readers that I have refuted this caricature of my position countless times: see in particular this interview and this follow-up. Note in particular this comment that I made in the latter interview: