The right to dissent

Submitted by Louis Wheeler (United States), Jan 4, 2003 at 05:54

Foner and Gilmore accuse Mr Pipes of displaying "a deep hostility to the essence of a democratic polity: the right to dissent." This is untrue; he is dissenting against an entrenched orthodoxy: them. The problem is that the Left has captured control of the Academy, and Mr Pipes must do his dissenting from outside the institution. His call for outside pressure is an indication of the Left's power. If there were freedom of thought in these institutions then intervention by outsiders (who pay their salaries) would be unnecessary.

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