Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Free Speech Is Good; Just Don't Say Anything We Dislike [George Leef]
That sums up the attitude of the hard-Left professoriate and administrators at many American colleges and universities. A good case in point is the treatment of Prof. Walter Block for having offended the dogmatic feminists at Loyola. For having questioned one of the core beliefs of feminism, that the "earnings gap" is due to discrimination, Block is being treated like a war criminal. Prof. Tom DiLorenzo writes about the tumult here.
Larry Summers was hounded out of the presidency of Harvard for the same offense. Universities are supposed to be places where the search for truth is paramount, but the vicious attacks on those who question whether certain beliefs are true belies that idea.
Incidentally, DiLorenzo refers to a very important book written at the dawn of the PC era: Hayek's The Mirage of Social Justice.
10/28 12:01 PM
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