For weekend readers, two articles from me this week on the campus battles:
“Should Politicians Force Diversity at Universities?” Published by the Berens Foundation’s The Right Insight. Excerpt on politicized universities:
“Politicians must then choose either (1) to fail in their responsibilities to taxpayers by continuing to spend their money on educationally irresponsible institutions, or (2) to use their political power to interfere with or override the self-governance of universities.”
“Defining Free Speech on Campus.” Published in Toronto’s Metro newspaper (page 9). Excerpt on the sometimes-hysterical rhetoric:
“University should teach you to make nuanced judgments. If you think there are only your views, and everyone else is Hitler, then that’s a problem with you. You are not an educated mind yet.”
Related:
My other posts and publications on Freedom of Speech and Thought.
“We grew up in a state in which all free expression of opinion is unscrupulously suppressed. The Hitler Youth, the SA, the SS have tried to drug us, to revolutionize us, to regiment us in the most promising young years of our lives. “Philosophical training” is the name given to the despicable method by which our budding intellectual development is muffled in a fog of empty phrases.”
The 21-year-old Sophie Scholl from the SIXTH (and last) LEAFLET , shortly before she was guillotined by the Nazis on 2/22/43.
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/wrleaflets.html
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