Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991
Freedom & the Universities
By C. Vann Woodward
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus
by Dinesh D'Souza
Free Press, 319 pp., $19.95
Defending freedom under attack in universities invariably gets defenders into a variety of trouble. The attackers almost always profess devotion to free speech themselves—except when it is carried to extremes, or is used by fanatics to discredit a cause they believe to be of greater or nobler or more urgent importance, or when it gives offense or pain or distress to people with enough troubles already. Resort to one or another, if not several, of these exceptions will be made in almost any dispute over the limits of free speech. After all, it is only in such instances, at least as perceived by those who resort to these exceptions, that the issue of free speech is likely to arise.
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