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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

I noticed that almost everyone I went to college with has worked at something other than the subject they majored in. I guess that' s one of the reasons for campus unrest.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.