Free Speech Absolutism Killed Free Speech By Tony Woodlief
We’re seeing free speech driven from campuses, in other words, because our unthinking commitment to it has kept us from constraining radicals who use their classrooms and administrative perches to persuade the young that freedom is a fiction.
Interesting take on Mill's idea that even the heretic should be allowed to speak. Woodlief says that no, some ideas need to be put to rest once and for all.
The Challenge of Marxism by Yoram Hazony
Simply put, the Marxist framework and democratic political theory are opposed to one another in principle. A Marxist cannot grant legitimacy to liberal or conservative points of view without giving up the heart of Marxist theory, which is that these points of view are inextricably bound up with systematic injustice and must be overthrown, by violence if necessary.
Excellent analysis of Marxism and the way it threatens liberal democracies.
Universities Abandon Reason for a False Idea of ‘Empowerment’ by Aaron Alexander Zubia
But a university that focuses on utility alone, without consideration of the value of pursuing truth for its own sake, will form students who are like-minded automatons rather than creative and independent thinkers. The complete instrumentalization of learning inevitably stifles free inquiry and tends toward politicization. Then, it tends toward indoctrination.
Universities are creating automatons, incapable of actual thought.
When George Washington Met Moses by John Berlau
What is undisputed, however, are the powerful messages of religious freedom and equality under the law from the Jewish congregation’s letter and Washington’s swift response. The letter dated August 17 states: “Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free Citizens, we now (with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events) behold a Government, erected by the Majesty of the People — a Government, which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance — but generously affording to All liberty of conscience, and immunities of Citizenship.”
I love this history of one of our greatest Americans and his commitment to religious freedom.
