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God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom

William F. Buckley Jr.

Who should decide what a university teaches: the faculty, in the name of academic freedom, or the alumni who sustain it?

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Author
William F. Buckley Jr.

Why read it

  • You will see the case that schools cannot be neutral about values, and judge it for yourself
  • You will be able to test the claim that academic freedom means letting every idea compete on equal terms in the classroom
  • You will be able to ask what a school is for and who gets to set its goals

Who it is for

  • A trustee or donor deciding what to fund at a college
  • A student puzzled by fights over what colleges teach
  • A reader curious how today's campus fights began

Contents

  1. The Revolt Against the Establishment: God and Man at Yale at Fifty
  2. Introduction
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
  6. THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
  7. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
  8. DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY
  9. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
  10. THESE ARE CHANGING TIMES
  11. UNFAIR DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME
  12. THE INCOME TAX
  13. THE INHERITANCE TAX
  14. PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS
  15. PRODUCTION AND EMPLOYMENT—RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE STATE
  16. NO LIMIT TO GOVERNMENT SPENDING
  17. BIG BUSINESS AND MONOPOLY
  18. THRIFT AND WELFARISM
  19. THE TEACHERS OF ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS
  20. THE DEPARTMENT
  21. EVIDENCES OF COLLECTIVISM IN EXTRACURRICULAR LIFE
  22. THE YALE DAILY NEWS
  23. THE POLITICAL UNION
  24. THE NATIONAL STUDENTS ASSOCIATION
  25. MISCELLANEOUS
  26. Chapter Three - YALE AND HER ALUMNI
  27. 1. THE TEACHER’S QUALIFICATIONS
  28. 2. DOES YALE PRACTICE “ACADEMIC FREEDOM”?
  29. 3. TRUTH AND VALUE
  30. 4. TRUTH WILL OUT
  31. 5. DOES YALE OBSERVE “ACADEMIC FREEDOM” IN SELECTING AN ADMINISTRATION?
  32. 6. THE GOALS OF YALE
  33. 7. SOME OBJECTIONS TO VALUE INCULCATION
  34. 8. THE HOAX OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM
  35. Chapter Five - THE PROBLEM OF THE ALUMNUS
  36. Appendix A - Religion and Sociology
  37. Appendix B - Sample Communications Relating to the Kennedy Controversy
  38. Appendix C - Philosophy and Religion
  39. Appendix D - Religion and Psychology
  40. Appendix E - Cuninggim on Religion at Yale
  41. Appendix F - Undelivered Address
  42. Appendix G - Colleges and Universities Using the Basic Economics Textbooks

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