God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'"There are great historical presumptions that from time to time the interests of the state and those of civilization will bifurcate, and unless there is independence, the cause of civilization is neglected....At the private college, the sense of mission is distinguishing. It is, however, strangled by what goes under the presumptuous designation of academic freedom. It is a terrible loss, the loss of the sense of mission. It makes the private university, sad to say, incoherent; and that is what I was trying to say when, two months out of Yale, I sat down to write this book."- William F. Buckley, Jr., from the Introduction "William F. Buckley's book with the brilliant title, God and Man at Yale, will lick up a glorious controversy.....He names names and quotes quotes, and conducts himself, in general, with a disrespect for his teachers that is charming and stimulating in a high degree." - Max Eastman, the American Mercury"This is an important book, perhaps the most thought provoking that had appeared in the last decade on the subject of higher education in the United States....Buckley writes with a clarity, a sobriety, and an intellectual honesty that would be noteworthy if it came from a college president."- Selden rodman, Saturday Review"It was an earnest, extreme, and irreverent book, a book that, in its mockery of authority, its impetuous logic, its relentless hewing to the line of reason, letting the sacred cows fall where they might, followed the old familiar script: CAMPUS REBEL FLAYS FACULTY." -Dwight Macdonald, The Reporter |
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