DAVID HOROWITZ’S INSTINCTS were right in attempting to take out an ad in the Daily Californian. If you’re a conservative, paying for your right to speak is just about the only way for your ideas to reach a large audience on a campus as inhospitable to free thought as the University of California-Berkeley. Conservative views, after all, are scarcely to be found amongst the faculty, officially invited guest lecturers, or on the op-ed page of the Daily Cal. When conservatives do speak out at Berkeley, they are shouted down and threatened. Full article published on Front Page Mag.

Mr. Flynn, you are correct in asserting that most US campuses have a liberal bent, and a few such as Berkeley the libealism is so extreme that it stiffles free expresion, which is inexcusable. But how do you respond to the argument that acedamia is one of the few refuges of liberalism and that for that reason should be allowed to flourish? The bussiness world is genetically conservative, and as the government sphere is merging more and more with the bussiness sphere it too is becoming more conservative. The universities are one of the last havens of liberalism, and seeing as how this country has a tradition of pluralism, shouldn't it be allowed to prosper there if it cannot prosper anywhere else? What is your vision for the country ,Mr. Flynn? To have it be a one-party state with the American form of conservatism the only acceptable idealogy? I understand and agree that both sides should be allowed to air thier views. But liberals can't air thier views in the bussiness world (eg the coroprate media) so where else can they have thier voices heard except on campuses?