Posted on 05/09/2016 12:08:25 PM PDT by jazusamo
Jason Riley has now joined the long and distinguished list of people invited — and then disinvited — to give a talk on a college campus, in this case Virginia Tech.
Mr. Riley is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and, perhaps most relevantly, author of a very insightful book titled "Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed."
In short, Jason Riley's views on race are different from the views that prevail on most college campuses. At one time, 50 years ago or earlier, exposing students to a different viewpoint was considered to be a valuable part of their education. But that was before academia — and the education system in general — became virtually a monopoly of the political left.
Today one can literally go from kindergarten to becoming a graduate student seeking a Ph.D., without ever hearing a vision of the world that conflicts with the vision of the left.
Conservative critics who object on grounds that the views of the left are wrong miss the point. Regardless of whose views become a monopoly, education suffers. John Stuart Mill understood this back in the middle of the 19th century.
As a young Marxist in college during the 1950s heyday of the anti-Communist crusade led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, I had more freedom to express my views in class, without fear of retaliation, than conservative students have on many campuses today.
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Any university student who wishes to graduate and receive his degree on time must first find out what his professors want to hear and then endeavor to provide it to them.
The time to express one’s individuality is after one graduates and not before. (Unless your opinions differ from that of your employer.)
Too mild Tom. Conservative students at today’s colleges are castigated, vilified, and give lower grades than students who espouse leftist leanings. It is tantamount to terrorism against conservatives.
You’re correct my friend. The leftist profs not only demand adherence from all but gloat about it.
I had 2 Marxist college professors gloat about giving me a B instead of an A . It only happened to me those 2 times, but hell, that was in 1975 !
I missed the memo, has dr. Sowell been Rehabilitated?
Such folks will have no problem going with the flow in their chosen career once it becomes clear to them what it takes for them to get ahead.
I think that explains why a lot of the people who campaigned as big Tea Party supporters so easily shifted gears once in office. They saw which way the wind was blowing and they got in line so they'd get approval and advancement just like they did in college.
America’s ‘universities’ are little more than kindergartens of the Left.
Probably the fastest way to resolve this nonsense is to create off campus forums, in which students and others are vetted before being given invitations. Nothing aggravates those that hate free speech like free speech.
They might even do things like produce DVDs of the event that are sold for a nominal amount after the fact. By not holding the events on campus, but just off campus, thumbs the nose at radicals.
Sowell has been part of the mob calling Trump another Hitler. He is dead to me.
Dr. Sowell is a brilliant man and has been a great thinking conservative for many years but for whatever reason has a hangup with Donald Trump.
I certainly don’t agree with him on Trump but am not about to ignore his brilliance on other subjects and he’ll never be dead to me.
“Sowell has been part of the mob calling Trump another Hitler. He is dead to me.”
Do you often throw the baby out with the bath water?
Sowell’s writings will endure far longer that any President’s time in office.
I read books by dead people all the time. I don’t read NEW COLUMNS by dead people.
I missed the memo, has dr. Sowell been Rehabilitated?
don’t be bitter; life is too short...
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