I just finished Cathy Young's article in Bulwark. First I think very highly of Young; she is an erudite philosopher of the highest magnitude and I think much of her criticism is accurate. There is no grand unifying theory of subversion taking place in American culture. But I also think Young, as an authentic freedom of speech libertarian…
I just finished Cathy Young's article in Bulwark. First I think very highly of Young; she is an erudite philosopher of the highest magnitude and I think much of her criticism is accurate. There is no grand unifying theory of subversion taking place in American culture. But I also think Young, as an authentic freedom of speech libertarian, does not want to recognize the power that the money spent by many Arab nations in alliance with Russia and the CCP has on American Universities and by extension on American schools of education. Kindergartners are indeed being taught the propaganda their elementary school teachers have learned in colleges of education that have been subsidized by countries like QATAR. Arab/Islamist money in sufficient quantity to subvert academic journals and pay for professorships is not speech that should be protected. Money buys propaganda, and the propaganda of one's enemy is not to be confused with Speech. Freedom of speech is only possible when both sides are in fact fairly represented. That is no longer the case in American universities! Censorship is DE RIGUEUR in many academic programs. All PhD students know they must to some degree ape their professors. If a PhD student in any of the humanities or social sciences dares to oppose "wokeism" that student will be cast out of the program, a pariah to the cause of so-called Social Change, and may incur extraordinary debt for the unfinished doctorate. It may destroy that budding intellectuals life in fact. That is not the freedom of libertarians in the least.
I just finished Cathy Young's article in Bulwark. First I think very highly of Young; she is an erudite philosopher of the highest magnitude and I think much of her criticism is accurate. There is no grand unifying theory of subversion taking place in American culture. But I also think Young, as an authentic freedom of speech libertarian, does not want to recognize the power that the money spent by many Arab nations in alliance with Russia and the CCP has on American Universities and by extension on American schools of education. Kindergartners are indeed being taught the propaganda their elementary school teachers have learned in colleges of education that have been subsidized by countries like QATAR. Arab/Islamist money in sufficient quantity to subvert academic journals and pay for professorships is not speech that should be protected. Money buys propaganda, and the propaganda of one's enemy is not to be confused with Speech. Freedom of speech is only possible when both sides are in fact fairly represented. That is no longer the case in American universities! Censorship is DE RIGUEUR in many academic programs. All PhD students know they must to some degree ape their professors. If a PhD student in any of the humanities or social sciences dares to oppose "wokeism" that student will be cast out of the program, a pariah to the cause of so-called Social Change, and may incur extraordinary debt for the unfinished doctorate. It may destroy that budding intellectuals life in fact. That is not the freedom of libertarians in the least.