What Are We Going to Do With the Willmoore Kendalls?
If one has tears, one should be prepared to shed them over the dilemma of the academic community as it faces the terrible problem, What are we going to do about the conservatives in our ranks? Here is a caste of very persuasive people whose spokesmen so exquisitely argued the necessity of allowing academic freedom to anyone of professional competence during those dark days when the laity questioned the wisdom of allowing Communists to teach, that the arguments and rhetoric fairly stuck to the ceiling. So now there is the problem of how, with all that stuff up there staring you in the face, you’re going to police the conservatives?
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