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Entry: Pope Banned from Speaking in Rome Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/wankers_ban_pope_from_speaking_in_rome#15062 Post contents: Anyone who doubts the Left is the perpetual enemy of free speech need only look at the universities of the western world. In the past four decades, the fashionably shabby partisans of the New Left took their self-congratulatory subversiveness to the classrooms – and the grizzled veterans of all those comparatively benign protest “riots” that shook campuses from Paris to New York became the professors and administrators who design the components of “higher education.” Now, what at one time seemed an innovative, far-out, experimental, radical, hip vanguard has moldered into a very tiresome – and very oppressive – mainstream. This is the standard of the modern university education: Students and faculty shall be multicultural, tolerant, omnisexual, communal, anti-racist, anti-anti-Semitic (pro-Semitic?) and blah, blah, blah. The administrations of the New Academe are just as censorious and expulsive as right-wing culture in the brief, hysterically exaggerated and distorted “McCarthy Era.” Unlike the victims of those ancient purges, I doubt there will be reconciliations and career comebacks for Norman Finkelstein, David Yeagley and dozens of others whose tenure shattered under the rough stones of Political Correctness. At today’s universities, there’s little room for free and open discussion. Debate has been all but replaced by indoctrination. The smug hypocrites so riled by Galileo and his persecution by the Church of four centuries ago have little patience for any worldview that does not excruciating track their own, one based on an ideology that has proven itself a miserable flop. The long-ago monks and friars who created – out of whole cloth – the model for the modern university system must be appalled – and ashamed – that His Holiness was treated so shabbily. Sent at: 2008 11 21