Fri 10 Nov 2006
young authoritarians
// category: thinking
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Spiked has an interview with Wendy Kaminer, former board member of the American Civil Liberties Union and author of the book Free For All: Defending Liberty in America Today. Of interest in the article is Kaminer’s description of how today’s college students are young authoritarians, which describes how students are more concerned with their notion of what is correct and not hurting the feelings of others rather than encourage, enjoy and participate in a free flow or marketplace of ideas. ‘Self-righteous intolerance of dissent remains distressingly common among supposedly progressive students on liberal campuses.’

