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Making Middlebury safe for speakers: A modest proposal
智库博客 |
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时间：2019-04-18
作者：
Charles Murray 来源：American Enterprise Institute (United States) |
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Ryszard Legutko, a distinguished Catholic philosopher from Poland, was supposed to give a lecture at Middlebury College yesterday. The lecture was cosponsored by the college’s political science department and Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. The lecture’s title was “The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies.”
Yesterday, Middlebury’s President Laurie Patton canceled the lecture, thereby demonstrating that Prof. Legutko may be onto something. The reason: The college could not guarantee the safety of the speaker and others participating in the event.
Yes, it could have. All President Patton had to do was issue the following announcement in place of the cancellation:
There’s no problem keeping a campus safe for speakers. I would speak at any university in the country without any security whatsoever if the president of that university made such a declaration and meant it. There’s only a problem with campus administrators who have renounced the telos of the university or who lack the courage to defend it.
There’s no problem keeping a campus safe for speakers. There’s only a problem with campus administrators who have renounced the telos of the university or who lack the courage to defend it.
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