[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1108766227.shtml

It begins:

	So public intellectuals may be "marginal" after
	all, but not in the dangerous sense in which
	Socrates found himself marginalized. This is not to
	deny the existence of censorship and discrimination
	in American universities. But nowadays the victims
	tend not to be academic public intellectuals,
	simply because most academic public intellectuals
	are liberal. Today's censorship is mainly of the
	"political correctness" variety, which rules out
	frank discussion of race, ethnic, and gender
	differences and of sexual orientation. There is a
	decided degree of intolerance of conservative, but
	not of liberal or even extreme left-wing, views and
	speakers, while the covert but...