One thing that becomes profoundly evident in Book III of Plato’s Republic is that he is not an advocate of such modern concepts as free speech or academic freedom as far as education is concerned. His primary concern is the education of the guardians, the ruling/protector class of the state, and the qualities these individuals ...
It is not an anti-Semitic issue. It is not even an academic freedom issue. It is a common sense issue. When Rev. Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first black archbishop in South Africa, agrees to speak at your university, you do not stop to think and you definitely do not decline ...
On 21 October 1869, William Edward Dodd was born in Clayton, North Carolina. His father, John Dodd, was from a hard-scrabble clan of respectable yeoman. His mother, Evelyn Creech Dodd, was from a modestly affluent family of antebellum slave owners. After the war, the Creech family was still wealthy enough to give Evelyn and John ...
The Hippy Counter-Culture is “a culture so radically disaffiliated from the mainstream assumptions of our society that it scarcely looks to many as a culture at all, but takes on the alarming appearance of a barbaric intrusion”, and starting in 1960’s that is exactly what it was.(Roszak, 42) In a time where technology and machines ...
