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...latter. For example, the editorial asserts that "the boundary between ideas and actions is an academic distinction," and that "it would be a mistake to think that ideas are less dangerous than actions," Precisely the same assertion is made, though more explicitly discarding intellectual freedom, by Messrs, Baker, Levenson, and Swanson: "The issue," they claim, "is whether there is to be a moral amnesty for mere theorizing, whether an academic community is free to disseminate any idea, consequences be damned...
...disappointed in the majority position of the Crimson editorial Board (Dec. 8th) on the issues surrounding Professor Richard Herrnstein's "I.Q." article and in the minority position signed jointly by Messrs, Jeffrey Baker, Michael Levenson, and Daniel Swanson. The majority editorial was disturbing because it argued, in effect, that intellectual freedom is not a value in itself, separate from political considerations...
...majority of the editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson cannot have their cake and eat it too. They must face the fact that formulating the nature of intellectual freedom in the manner they do is tantamount to denying intellectual freedom. Either the intellect is free from extrinsic limitations or it is not. To state, as Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson do, that "political circumstances are not to be ignored...it is political considerations that must decide the terms of any debate," is simply to deprive the intellect of an intrinsic freedom...
...Crimson editorial board and Messrs. Baker, Levenson and Swanson are free to take this position, but in doing so they should recognize that they are in keeping with a long tradition of enemies of intellectual freedom, including the Medieval Church, Fascist Germany, Communist Russia, and the McCarthyites...
...Michael Levenson's critical essay treats the experimental work of three contemporary authors in a very experimental way. "The Short Fiction of John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover" is a subject few critics would take on without assurance of enough room for extensive textual justification and a good deal of hedging; Levenson's short essay on the "self-vivisection" of these three writers in search of a sensibility uses brief quotations to launch his fast-paced, nine-part analysis. The spirit of the essay is apt, but the dialectic Levenson sets up between the styles of this new fiction...