Thursday, October 3, 2013

The Academy

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Campus View

“The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.”      

 William F. Buckley Jr. (1925-2008), conservative icon, author, talk-show host, magazine editor and wordman. (NYTimes obit)

• Editorial Comment: Nothing to do with journalism, but it has a ring of truth to it.

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