Conservatives Have No Monopoly on Support for Freedom of Speech
Limiting the ability of others to express divergent opinions is not a threat to conservatism — it is a threat to the entire Socratic method upon which the liberal arts university model is based. One doesn’t have to be a MAGA redneck or a PETA tree-hugger or anything else to be horrified by America’s trend (from extremes on both sides) of trying to silence or eliminate one’s intellectual opponents. I recall Princeton as an eclectic mix of caffeine-stoned intellectuals espousing diverse (and occasionally batshit crazy) views on politics and everything else. I can think of nothing more depressing than the idea of Princeton one day rejecting anything except the “correct” way of thinking, whatever that may be.
Limiting the ability of others to express divergent opinions is not a threat to conservatism — it is a threat to the entire Socratic method upon which the liberal arts university model is based. One doesn’t have to be a MAGA redneck or a PETA tree-hugger or anything else to be horrified by America’s trend (from extremes on both sides) of trying to silence or eliminate one’s intellectual opponents. I recall Princeton as an eclectic mix of caffeine-stoned intellectuals espousing diverse (and occasionally batshit crazy) views on politics and everything else. I can think of nothing more depressing than the idea of Princeton one day rejecting anything except the “correct” way of thinking, whatever that may be.