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Monday, May 05, 2003

# Posted 2:54 PM by Patrick Belton  

DON KAGAN, IN DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH AT YALE: YalePundits post on Yale junior professor Jim Sleeper, who pounced like a maddog on two Yale freshmen who dared criticize a faculty panel which attacked pro-war students. Professor Sleeper accused the two students of being "dubious Yalies, scenting power," of being "primed to attack professors in public," and of being "wired to interests and agendas that range far beyond what is acknowledged." One of Yale's most splendid moral compasses, Donald Kagan, wrote an unpublished letter to the YDN along with several other members of the faculty to "make it clear" to the students that "they are not alone," and that Yale must be kept a welcoming space for free expression from all points of view, rather than a place where thin-skinned professors publicly and viciously excoriate students who dare to raise questions about the orthodoxies they propound. Well done.
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