{"id":4831,"date":"2018-01-24T12:30:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/amy-wax-on-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T12:30:03","slug":"amy-wax-on-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/24\/amy-wax-on-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Wax on Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am afraid Professor Wax does not appreciate what she is up against. She writes<\/a>,<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is well documented that American universities today, more than ever before, are dominated by academics on the left end of the political spectrum. How should these academics handle opinions that depart, even quite sharply, from their \u201cpolitically correct\u201d views? The proper response would be to engage in reasoned debate \u2014 to attempt to explain, using logic, evidence, facts, and substantive arguments, why those opinions are wrong. This kind of civil discourse is obviously important at law schools like mine, because law schools are dedicated to teaching students how to think about and argue all sides of a question. But academic institutions in general should also be places where people are free to think and reason about important questions that affect our society and our way of life \u2014 something not possible in today\u2019s atmosphere of enforced orthodoxy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Of course I agree with this brave little sermon.  But it is naive to think that it will have any effect on the leftist termites that have infested the universities. They don't give a rat's ass about the values Wax so ably champions.  Wax doesn't seem to realize that civil discourse is impossible with people with whom one is at war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related:<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals Need to Preach What They Practice<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Higher Education or Higher Enstupidation?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I am afraid Professor Wax does not appreciate what she is up against. She writes, It is well documented that American universities today, more than ever before, are dominated by academics on the left end of the political spectrum. How should these academics handle opinions that depart, even quite sharply, from their \u201cpolitically correct\u201d views? … Continue reading “Amy Wax on Free Speech”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-free-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}