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While he said that he hadn’t planned to win converts from yesterday’s speech, he was surprised at the lack of open dissent...
Professor Higonnet, if he reads this, will probably use it in his next article as an example of dissent being attacked in America. The tedious attitude that equates criticism with intimidation and censorship is sadly powerful among scholars who are generally only praised as progressives for their outlandish beliefs. However, I don’t think that he should be stopped from presenting his beliefs. In fact, I think he ought to explain more clearly to Harvard conservatives who admire the leadership of President Bush why we are actually racist, greedy, imperialist bigots...
...Harvard]. It’s better to get away from Harvard and write something a little funnier.” Fenster is committed to eight columns in total, in which he is free to mount his own stance on the swirling controversies in British higher education, such as student dissent over the recent “top-up,” the proposed university tuition hike which raises the nation-wide £1,000 fee to £3,000 (less than $5,000). “I don’t begrudge Oxford students their luxury...
...dissent in the Hazelwood decision, Justice William J. Brennan criticized educators who censor, calling them poor teachers and even worse citizens. “Such unthinking contempt for individual rights is intolerable from any state official,” he wrote. “It is particularly insidious from one to whom the public entrusts the task of inculcating in its youth an appreciation for the cherished democratic liberties that our Constitution guarantees...
...Dissent: Don't Hesitate To Attack