joanna bujes:
> I feel really torn on this one. On the one hand, the idea that
> "universities have become a havens for displaced radicals" is a joke.
> Although agitational/educational stuff goes on on the fringes, the vast
> majority of academics I have run into are quite conservative. On the other
> hand, if this is the beginning of a new witch hunt, it may have the effect
> of further radicalizing those so inclined as well as those who are willing
> to stand up for freedom of speech if nothing else.
I would think the academic institutions would want to keep some nonvirulent radicals around in order to induce an immune response in the bourgeois replicants under their care. This was certainly the function of "Reds" on campus when I was a boy, and that was much too long before the Sixties. We all knew what we were supposed to think, and if we didn't, clowns like Kimball were available to act it out for us. "But, seriously, folks...." 'Round and 'round the mulberry bush. It doesn't stop, and it doesn't get better.
Will someone send this to the _Wall_Street_Journal_ for me?
-- Gordon