And he managed to endure an investigation and prosecution that sounds more like Stalinist Russia than America. And this incident isn't, as Kors and co-author Harvey Silverglate point out, isolated in any way. What they find will be extremely upsetting to old-line liberals like me. And the genesis is an essay by Herbert Marcuse, whose name has been almost forgotten in the last 25 years. If anything can be said, he wrote, then ideas might appear to be neutral.
Freedom is thus a kind of drug.
First, by removing ideas that cripple the disenfranchised. This, he said, would create a superior, more authentic tolerance. These ideas have gained almost no supporters in the Real World. They have, somehow, become part of the very fabric of university life in America. The odds that this will become a college textbook are slight.