Islands of Repression https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/05/islands-of-repression/

May 13, 2014 | Ruth R. Wisse

About the author: Ruth R. Wisse is professor emerita of Yiddish and comparative literatures at Harvard and a distinguished senior fellow at Tikvah. Her memoir Free as a Jew: a Personal Memoir of National Self-Liberation, chapters of which appeared in Mosaic in somewhat different form, is out from Wicked Son Press.

The American political system protects open debate; in universities, debate is shut down and muggers prevail.

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