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

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.

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

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.

The idea - the core idea of humanism - is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.