The decline of American academia, By J.L. Reiter

The Society

Summing up the totalitarian state's attitude to those who stray from dogma, Stalin's chief of secret police Lavreti Beria said something like "show me the man and I'll show you the crime." In other words, in a state without freedom of speech and the rule of law, a pretext can be easily found to get rid of anyone with inconvenient views. This is the clim…