A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities (Flynn James R.)
A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities (Flynn James R.) Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the "good university" should teach the intellectual skills students need…
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A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities (Flynn James R.)
Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the "good university" should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. Flynn presents the underlying factors that have circumscribed the range of ideas now tolerated in our institutions of learning. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted for fear of causing "offense." In this daring and intrepid book, which was originally withdrawn from publication by another publisher but is now proudly presented by Academica Press, the famous intelligence researcher James R.
Flynn studiously examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political