A very eye opening book for anyone who is getting ready to head off to school, or to send a child away to college. Also useful for anyone who has been away from campus for a while. It appears that too many campus radicals are frozen in time, never having left the safety...
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A very eye opening book for anyone who is getting ready to head off to school, or to send a child away to college. Also useful for anyone who has been away from campus for a while. It appears that too many campus radicals are frozen in time, never having left the safety of their academic cocoon to spread their wings in the real world. (Unless you count years on the run from the law after having committing acts of terror against the Unites States. But I suppose since they were still mostly sheltered by their comrades in arms, there was little danger of exposure to reality). I am all for academia as an arena for the study and discussion of ideas, particularly controversial ones, but the use of the tenured teaching position to stifle debate and indoctrinate students is a travesty. One can't help but wonder: "What are these professors so afraid of? Is their position so weak that it cannot withstand the presence of an opposing viewpoint on the same campus?" Having said that, the book is occasionally weak on sourcing, too frequently citing to secondary rather than primary sources, and also relying in some cases on apparently uncorroborated reports from individual students.
