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Academic Freedom and Academic Anarchy By Sidney Hook Cowles, $5.95 With his accustomed intrepidity, Professor Sidney Hook takes up his formidable cudgel again in defense of the liberties of college and university. “Although order is possible without justice,” he writes, “justice is impossible without order.” Intelligent, honest and unsparing of fools, this democratic socialist has been marching up and down these United States for the past two years to speak against the enemies of freedom and order on the campus; this book consolidates his arguments.

Sixteen years ago, in his Heresy, Yes—Conspiracy, No, Dr. Hook declared forthrightly that the Communist has no rightful place in the academy. Today, his adversary is the youthful anarchist, rather than the dogmatic member of the Communist Party—but an anarchist screaming “vulgar Marxist” slogans. This new book bears some marks of haste (a good many printer’s errors), but Mr. Hook is relentlessly logical and practical as ever. Such of his adversaries as are able to read a serious book must be somewhat shaken in their fanaticism by these closely reasoned chapters.

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Academic Freedom and Academic Anarchy By Sidney Hook Cowles, $5.95 With his accustomed intrepidity, Professor Sidney Hook takes up his formidable cudgel again in defense of the liberties of college and university. “Although order is possible without justice,” he writes, “justice is impossible without order.” Intelligent, honest and unsparing of fools, this democratic socialist has been marching up and down these United States for the past two years to speak against the enemies of freedom and order on the campus; this book consolidates his arguments.

Sixteen years ago, in his Heresy, Yes—Conspiracy, No, Dr. Hook declared forthrightly that the Communist has no rightful place in the academy. Today, his adversary is the youthful anarchist, rather than the dogmatic member of the Communist Party—but an anarchist screaming “vulgar Marxist” slogans. This new book bears some marks of haste (a good many printer’s errors), but Mr. Hook is relentlessly logical and practical as ever. Such of his adversaries as are able to read a serious book must be somewhat shaken in their fanaticism by these closely reasoned chapters.