No one should be surprised… ======= WSJ By Crispin Sartwell We are witnessing the second great era of speech repression in academia, the first coming during the “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early ’90s. One force behind the new wave is a theory of truth, or a picture of reality, developed the first time around. This theory, which we might call “linguistic... Read more
Archive for the ‘Losing Freedom’ Category
Middlebury’s Principles Require Discipline – Letters
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftThese comments in Letters to the Editor, are very, very good. ========== WSJ Letters to the Editor, 3/14/2017 Jay Parini and Keegan Callanan, professors at Middlebury College, have set out principles for their institution following the campus mob action that prevented Charles Murray “from communicating with his audience.” (“Middlebury’s Statement of Principle,” op-ed, March 7). Setting out principles is the easy part. The challenge... Read more
McCarthyism At Middlebury
March 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Politically correctI hope that Mr Henninger is correct, but I am not betting a lot of money on it. ===== Daniel Henniger, WSJ 3/11/2017 The violence committed against Charles Murray and others at Middlebury College is a significant event in the annals of free speech. Since the day the Founding Fathers planted the three words, “freedom of speech,” in the First Amendment to the... Read more
Middlebury’s Statement Of Principle
March 7 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, The LeftWhere is the left leaning press when they could really provide some support to the concept of a truly liberal society?? They REALLY should be ashamed that they do not cover this adequately. WSJ 3/7/2017 By Jay Parini And Keegan Callanan Middlebury, Vt. On Thursday roughly 100 of our 2,500 students prevented a controversial visiting speaker, Charles Murray, from communicating... Read more
Who’s Afraid of Student Journalists?
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correctThis story first broke by the New York Times? =================== By John J. Miller WSJ 2/9/2017 Riots last week at the University of California, Berkeley stopped Milo Yiannopoulos, a rightwing provocateur who contributes to Breitbart News, from speaking on campus. The violence forced the cancellation of his event and inflicted $100,000 in damage to school property, according to administrators. Then it spread to New... Read more
