R.J. Innerfield ’67

2 Weeks Ago

Freedom of Speech in the Academic Forum

As a loyal Princetonian  I commend President Eisgruber’s defense of noxious ideas within the academic forum. Although as a Jew I may be deeply offended by some of the courseware offered (see “Book Assigned for Princeton Course Criticized as Antisemitic,” October 2023 issue), I will defend its presentation within an unbiased forum.

While courses are proposed and approved by the faculty, the question I have is would President Eisgruber consider a course entitled “Religious Dismantling of Western Civilization: The Carcinogenic Metaphor of Infect, Infiltrate, Metastasize, and Strangulation” or another entitled “Religious Hegemony via the Early Co-opting of Academia”?

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