A Book Too Risky To Publish: Free Speech and Universities - Softcover

James R. Flynn (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1680532197 ISBN 13: 9781680532197

Publisher: Academica Press, 2019

Synopsis

Traditionally, our society has broadly agreed that the “good university” should teach the intellectual skills students need to become citizens who are intelligently critical of their own beliefs and of the narratives presented politicians, society, the media, and, indeed, universities themselves. The freedom to debate is essential to the development of critical thought, but on university campuses today free speech is increasingly restricted for fear of causing “offense.” In this daring and intrepid book, which was originally withdrawn from publication by another publisher but is now proudly presented by Academica Press, the famous intelligence researcher James R. Flynn presents the underlying factors that have circumscribed the range of ideas now tolerated in our institutions of learning. Flynn studiously examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political activism effectively censors its opponents, and how academics censor themselves and each other. A Book Too Risky To Publish concludes that few universities are now living up to their original mission to promote free inquiry and unfettered critical thought. In an age marred by fake news and ever increasing social and political polarization, this book makes an impassioned argument for a return to critical thought in our institutions of higher education.

About this title

About the Author

James R. Flynn, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Political Studies, University of Otago. Author of The Torchlight List, Fate and Philosophy, and 16 other books

Edition details

• Publisher: Academica Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1680532197
• ISBN 13: 9781680532197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280