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KOPFF E CHRISTIAN <kopff@spot.colorado.edu> wrote:
<snip>
>Contemporary universities have systematically eliminated traditional
>conservatives from university faculties and have instituted a reign of
>terror against anyone who expresses the slightest reservations about the
>academic regime. I am so old I can remember when discussion and debate
>were not only thinkable at Haverford College, they actually took place.
>Now the faculty is afraid to give their names to the NY Times.
>There will be no culture war because intellectual diversity has been
>systematically purged from university faculties and those who now regret
>that, or even feel reservations about it, are afraid to talk except
>under conditions of anonymity.

There is an old Greek proverb:

"One sleeps in the bed they spread."

O Theseus, where are you now?  Procrustes is back...

Wakefully,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos


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