Liberate The Campus

Strategies for eliminating intellectual debate on campus are manifold, amongst them: preferential hiring by ideology and group identity rather than academic accreditation; stifling speech codes to punish "offensive" language . . . .. Apart from a small contingency of embattled conservative and libertarian academics within the universities, along with the lonely gadfly Society for Academic Freedom in Scholarship ( www.safs.ca) and a modest phalanx of media contrarians, few Canadians (certainly not parents, donors and trustees) seem to understand that the civilizational self-doubt flowing from the degradation of a classic liberal education is the plaque in our national arteries.