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Scholarly And Scientific Boycotts Of Israel: Abusing The Academic Enterprise, Kenneth Lasson
Scholarly And Scientific Boycotts Of Israel: Abusing The Academic Enterprise, Kenneth Lasson
All Faculty Scholarship
Veritas vos liberabit, chanted the scholastics of yesteryear. The truth will set you free, echo their latter-day counterparts in the academy.
Universities like themselves to be perceived as places of culture in a chaotic world, protectors of reasoned discourse, peaceful havens for learned professors roaming orderly quadrangles and pondering higher thoughts-a community of scholars seeking knowledge in sylvan tranquility.
The real world of higher education, of course, is not quite so wonderful.
Instead of a feast for unfettered intellectual curiosity, much of the modern academy is dominated by curricular deconstructionists who disdain western civilization, people who call themselves multiculturalists but, …
Comments: A Poisoned Arrow In His Quiver: Why Forbidding An Entire Branch Of Government From Communicating With A Reporter Violates The First Amendment, Joseph S. Johnston
Comments: A Poisoned Arrow In His Quiver: Why Forbidding An Entire Branch Of Government From Communicating With A Reporter Violates The First Amendment, Joseph S. Johnston
University of Baltimore Law Review
"[There exists] a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials."
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."