William F. Buckley Jr.

God and Man at Yale

the superstitions of "Academic Freedom"

Introduction by John Chamberlain

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# GOD AND MAN AT YALE

## The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom"

BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

Must the American people support schools whose students are taught to disparage American traditions and institutions? Is the alumnus entitled to insist that the college or university he supports encourage a respect for God and for individual freedom, if these are the values he wishes to further?

The academic "liberal" says no. He insists that the educational overseer has no right to discriminate against any teacher who supports doctrines alien to his own, and that any attempt to do so is in violation of "academic freedom."

William F. Buckley, Jr., a recent graduate of Yale, vigorously and eloquently indicts this theory of

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"academic freedom." He believes that responsible men and women must energetically defend and encourage whatever values they cherish. He believes that any attempt to preserve our civilization which does not take into account the influencing of students is doomed to failure.

As a Christian and an individualist, Mr. Buckley takes his alma mater Yale as a case in point. He demonstrates the secularist and collectivist impact of Yale education, and points out the large number of faculty members dedicated to overthrowing those features of our civilization which Yale's supporters wish to preserve. Why, asks Mr. Buckley, should the alumni be called upon to support an institution which is destroying the values they believe in?

The issues are drawn. This challenging book sets forth the sound but much neglected viewpoint that, the highly touted canons of "academic freedom" notwithstanding, the American people are entitled to shape their own destiny, which means they are entitled to supervise their own schools.

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR., graduated from Yale in 1950 with a brilliant—and somewhat stormy—record. His explosive editorials as chairman of the Yale Daily News roused the Yale campus in a manner that will long be remembered. Called everything from a "brilliant journalist" to "the most dangerous undergraduate Yale has seen in years," he was perhaps most generously described by a fellow classmate: "He had a gift for debating and . . . writing; he made no excuses for his convictions; he did an enormous amount to stimulate political interest on the campus."

In addition to his activities on the News, Buckley was also a leading member of the Debating Society, and one of the team that scored a victory over Oxford on the subject of "Socialism vs. Capitalism." He was Class Orator, member of the Elizabethan Club, Fence Club, Torch Honor Society, and Skull and Bones.

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