The shadow university
by Alan Charles Kors, Harvey A. Silverglate, Press The Free · first published 1998
100% recommend
Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct world-view through censorship, double standards, and a judicial system without due process. The Shadow University is a stinging indictment of the covert system of justice on college campuses, exposing the widespread reliance on kangaroo courts and arbitrary punishment to coerce students and faculty into conformity. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, staunch civil libertarians and active defenders of free inquiry on campus, lay bare the totalitarian mindset th
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Atty. Silverglate is very much not a fraud. He's the author of "The Shadow University" which was one of the most disruptive blows that's been struck against the large-endowment administrations in the past few decades. I actually happen to know one of the subjects of Mr. Silverglate's…
on “NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing” ↗…in Zika containment funding, etc.? Hard to say if these times are really worse and if "ignoring the other team" is really to blame. Some other content in this vein that was interesting reading: * The Shadow University -- a 1999 nonfiction book of essays about how, at American universities, concepts like "academic freedom" and "the marketplace of ideas" have entered a tension with other concepts (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060977728)…
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