1950's Education | God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom"

Memoir

By: William F. Buckley Jr.

Date: August 1951

Source: Buckley, William F., Jr. God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of "Academic Freedom." Chicago: Regnery, 1986, lvii–lxiii.

About the Author: William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–), author and television personality, founded the National Review in 1955 and served as its editor-in-chief. A well-known conservative, he hosted the television discussion program Firing Line from 1966 to 1999. Buckley is the author of a series of spy novels and is a syndicated columnist. He is also the author of Nearer My God: An Autobiography of Faith (1997).

Introduction

William F. Buckley Jr.'s undergraduate experience at Yale University in the late 1940s and early 1950s was not what he had expected. While fond of Yale for a variety of other reasons, he was disturbed by what he saw as a bias of the...