Campus Correctness (1995)

This critical notice of Jonathan Rauch's KINDLY INQUISITORS: THE NEW ATTACKS ON FREE THOUGHT is startlingly relevant to today's academic environment, with its safe spaces, trigger warnings, and speech codes.Describing Rauch's book as thoughtful, refreshing, and surprising, Haack notes that, far from being not just another jeremiad of the "ain't it awful" genre, it penetrates to the deep connections between  epistemology and politics, and to the contrast between Plato's scary epistemologico-vision and a free marketplace of ideas.