Day: March 5, 2014

Why Harvey Mansfield Is Unique

This is an excerpt from an essay in The American Conservative by Patrick Deneen on the Harvard Crimson column by Harvard senior S.V. Korn,”The Doctrine of Academic Freedom” which argued for dispensing with longstanding commitments to “academic freedom” in favor of what she calls “academic justice.” *** What is particularly telling in Ms. Korn’s article is that she […]

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A Warrior Against the ‘Rape Culture’ Speaks Out

The Wall Street Journal editorial page has been under heavy fire for running James Taranto’s February 10 column criticizing the double standard in campus policies that treat the man as a criminal and the woman as a victim when they have drunken sex–widely and egregiously misinterpreted as “if a drunk woman is raped, it’s as […]

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