It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.