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Academic Freedom and Berkeley (1967-01-16)
About this film
We eventually get to Berkeley-where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline-but before that, we have a never-the-twain-shall-meet discussion of which views might and which might not, under the tenets of academic freedom, disqualify a scholar from being hired by a university. WFB: "You, despising racism as much as I do, are prepared to assert that no one who is a racist actually would get into a college of which you were president, but that in fact people can be well-qualified Communists." HT: "... there is a sharp distinction to be made between a philosophy of racism, affirming the notion that there is one race superior to another, ... and a political philosophy which one identifies as Communism. I think you have to talk about those in different categories."
Directors & creators
WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr., United States, Radicalism, academic freedom
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