II (Continued from last issue) Now the question arises, do most colleges practice and does Yale actually practice “academic freedom.” To this question Mr. Buckley answers that they do not, and, in fact, do “not even believe what they say about education and academic freedom” (p. 145). For example, an English teacher who would teach that Joyce […]

William F. Buckley, Jr.: GOD AND MAN AT YALE. THE SUPERSTITIONS OF ‘ACADEMIC FREEDOM.’ Chicago: Henry Renery Company. 1951. The chief sin of the author, says John Chamberlain in the introduction, is that he holds “certain truths to be self-evident: that the free economy is better for both the individual and the group than the […]