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• Actors: Harold Taylor
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: WOR-TV (New York, N.Y.)
• DVD Release Date: August 11, 2008
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001E52U58
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,311 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tug of War with the Academic New Order, April 13, 2009

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This review is from: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "Academic Freedom and Berkeley" (DVD)

This 1967 snapshot of academic discourse is certainly a primer for future David Frye-like impersonators of William F. Buckley, Jr. Here, Dr. Harold Taylor, academic-at-large, fends himself uncomfortably from the various insinuations of communism sympathy in the guise of hypothetical inquiry by Buckley for half the program, before successfully moving the heated polemics to Berkeley, defending academic freedom and student free speech away from the tyrannical trustee-control that Buckley upholds. This is a seminal look at education's naive caving into student wants as "serous change." By then communism was no longer the enemy, it was being a "stuffed shirt," or un-groovy. Over time we know that this all led to laxity and unequal standards to produce the factories universities are tday. Neither the rigid traditionalism Mr. Buckley speaks for or the relaxed openness of Dr. Taylor signals well for education's role in shaping America's future. A wonderful Buckley wrestling match.