April 17, 2014

Misguided Attacks On Condoleeza Rice


[From article]
When the University of Minnesota invited her to give a lecture Thursday as part of a series marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the herd of independent minds that is the school’s faculty roused itself.
Roughly 200 of them demanded that the invitation be revoked, mostly for her association with George W. Bush’s interrogation and detention policies, but also because she is unfit to be part of a civil-rights lecture series.
[. . .]
The Minnesota professors say that it is in a “spirit of free expression” that they ask for the reversal of Rice’s invitation. Because nothing says free expression like shutting down someone’s lecture.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/04/condi-rice-stupid-hounding-105771.html?ml=m_t3_2h#.U0-xWt0--yN

The Stupid Hounding of Condi Rice
By RICH LOWRY
Politico
April 16, 2014

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