re: #552 Killgore Trout

No it’s not. The university is free to assemble whatever faculty they want to provide the educational environment they desire. Fewer radicals would be a good idea. They should be doing that anyways.

This is a completely unworkable idea which is obvious to anyone spending five seconds to think about it. The minute you cripple academic freedom like that, there’s no end in sight. Many of the best ideas every promogulated were radical in their time, were unacceptable in mainstream society. Other ideas, like Marxism, are extremely useful as a critique and should not be suppressed, but engaged with.

What you are proposing is what happened during the Red Scare. It’s cowardly, unamerican, and stupid.