[Peace] Academic freedom - Chicago 10/12

[C. G. Estabrook]

It's hardly surprising that the session wasn't arranged by the 
University of Chicago or by any other university, but by a non-American, 
non-academic institution -- the New Left Review/Verso Books.

I'll post a recent good if debatable account of the history of NLR on 
peace-discuss.  --CGE


Matt Reichel wrote:
> Of course, the University of Chicago has never been a safe-haven of 
> academic freedom.
> 
> Our own Francis Boyle . . .
> 
> "Chicago routinely trained me and numerous other students to become 
> ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many 
> neophyte Neo-con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago 
> or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. The University of 
> Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft 
> Police State . . "
> 
> 
> http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle08022003.html
> 
> 
> -
> mer
> 
>  > Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:05:26 -0500
>  > From: galliher at uiuc.edu
>  > To: peace at lists.chambana.net
>  > Subject: [Peace] Academic freedom - Chicago 10/12
>  >
>  > The article below is from the student newspaper at the U. of Chicago.
>  > It concerns the talks held there last Friday in regard to the campaign
>  > against Norman Finkelstein. Selections from the talks will be broadcast
>  > on upcoming WEFT shows (90.1 FM):
>  > News from Neptune, Saturdays, 10-11am
>  > From Bard to Verse, Saturdays, noon-1pm
>  > Window on the World, Sundays, 5-6pm
>  >
>  > ===========================================
>  >
>  > Scholars call for “freedom” in academia
>  > By Kimberly Sutton
>  > Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
>  > ...