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Academic Freedom

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Lynne Cheney's 15-page delivery is trenchant and engaging as expected from any presentation she gives. She zeroes in on the dangers of political correctness and engagingly sites a string of invidious examples currently raging at American universities.

However, why this one speech was issued as a stand-alone work is curious. It is short enough to have been reprinted as a thought provoking magazine article or would have been a powerful chapter in a collection of similar orations published in book form.

As an isolated speech it leaves the reader wanting much more. The wife of America's next vice-president has too much to say and has provided far too many brilliant speeches and essays for them to be offered on an individual basis like this.

This piece of pseudo-academic drivel could almost be taken for parody if it wasn't for the fact that it was written by the Vice-President's Wife.

It is quite astonishing to read this at the moment with the current drive to destroy a country already crippled by both a dictatorial leader and UN sanctions

When Cheney finally comes to the opinions of the academics that she is so obsessed with critcising, it is hard to imagine how any sane person could seriously complain when campus members are chanting "Make Peace, Not War".

The article is concerned with a desire to teach Americans about their nation's history - although it seems from this, that her nation's history is the very last thing that she wants anyone to discuss.

The fact that these views effectively sum-up those of the current US administration is utterly terrifying and is another reason why everyone with a brain should read this in order to know the truly vile opinions dominating a vile administration in the world's most dangerous nation.

it you want to be a shrill conservative, fine.. but please don't have the audacity to try and pass it off as scholarly.