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Week after week, Astrue won. Housewives, journalists, college professors-he beat them all. He did not miss too many of his tough questions and made the most of his share of the snaps. M.C. Bill Wendell asked him if it was true that Robert Hutchins was once chancellor of the...
It followed that the Fund ought to be promoting a "Tactical Manual for Beleaguered Professors," which outlined whatever was known about preserving your job while under fire, or perhaps that Robert Hutchins ought to organize an employment agency for purge victims and send defense funds to those in danger.
But according to Mr. Hutchins, the preservation of academic freedom required more than a cessation of outrages. Academic freedom demands that the university commit itself to classroom discussion of the most serious and controversial questions of the age, no matter where the discussion may lead.
Which, then, is the threat in our own time: purges, conformity, or myopia? According to Mr. Hutchins, the threat comes not from purges themselves, but from the conformity which they induce. The response is therefore not action but investigation.
This, then, is not a book about academic freedom so much as about the academic world. Its value is not as a weapon in the arsenal of civil liberties, but as a first step towards understanding the academic mind.ROBERT M. HUTCHINS