Books, Arts & Manners: (Almost) Banned in Britain

A telling comment on the climate of modern intellectual life was made a few years ago by the biologist Garrett Hardin, who remarked that the dissenter from Darwin “inevitably attracts the speculative psychiatric eye to himself.” The opinion cartels have ways of policing the streets even without the aid of the state.

For confirmation, consult the fate of the Salisbury Review, a conservative British quarterly. Some of its contributors—Jeane Kirkpatrick, F. A. Hayek, Anthony Flew, P. T. Bauer—are too big to be vulnerable. But others have lost academic promotions, suffered personal harassment, and been hounded from jobs.

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A telling comment on the climate of modern intellectual life was made a few years ago by the biologist Garrett Hardin, who remarked that the dissenter from Darwin “inevitably attracts the speculative psychiatric eye to himself.” The opinion cartels have ways of policing the streets even without the aid of the state.

For confirmation, consult the fate of the Salisbury Review, a conservative British quarterly. Some of its contributors—Jeane Kirkpatrick, F. A. Hayek, Anthony Flew, P. T. Bauer—are too big to be vulnerable. But others have lost academic promotions, suffered personal harassment, and been hounded from jobs.