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...pretensions of public government and the private character of those who comprise it present as with a problem Shklar's challenge. Neither public nor private sphere is any less cruel; yet more is expected of the former. Any liberalism that pits itself against the fear implicit in cruelty's vices has a task set out for itself. Is its power awesome enough to rid us of those vices? Hardly. Yet Shklar insists that it may help keep us from the rot in ourselves that leads us to follow fearful political solutions...
...Shklar's implicit message is just as interesting. Liberalism's opponents, she suggests, should not pretend to hold a monopoly on morality. While liberalism may suffer from its own delicacies, it is far from a moral free for all. She writes, "Liberalism is in fact extremely difficult and constraining--for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom...
...more the University acts in this way the more it risks disturbing the implicit arrangements under which institutions of learning can continue to function with the freedom they need to carry out their essential mission. If Harvard insists on exerting leverage on issues we care deeply about individuals corporations, and other organizations are likely to exert economic pressure against us on matters they feel strongly about, such as the radical opinions of particular professors, or Harvard's positions toward ROTC, or the University's policies concerning involvement in covert CIA activities...
...Doesn't an invitation to someone like Secretary Weinberger to speak at Harvard constitute an implicit endorsement of his policies and thus justify efforts to disrupt the speech by those who deeply disagree with those policies...
...right to decide for others which speakers are fit to be heard or which public discussions deserve to take place." President Bok views. But even when the University itself asks individuals to speak, such invitations definitely do not constitute implicit endorsements of the speakers or their policies and ideas. If a university could only invite speakers holding views it officially endorsed, it would have to impose a form of orthodoxy on the campus that would prevent us all from listening to many kinds of unconventional, often disagreeable, but potentially stimulating and worthwhile ideas. Once again, we must ask who would...