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

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

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

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.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

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

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.