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Digby Baltzell:
I talked about this to a leading trustee of the Univer–
sity of Pennsylvania for three and a half hours. At the end she said, "I
agree with every single thing you've just said, but I was afraid to say it."
This happened again and again, but they never say anything.
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Vann Woodward:
We must not fall into the idea that we have to
provide people with comforts and self-satisfaction. That isn't our func–
tion.
Edith Kurzwei1:
I think it goes beyond that. If you're at a faculty
meeting, and you suddenly look up and notice that three-quarters of
your colleagues are aghast at what you're saying, even if some of them
agree with you over lunch but now are afraid to speak up, you feel iso–
lated, and you learn to shut up.
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Vann Woodward:
We're divided, but that's normal, and we should
accept that.
Edith Kurzweil:
Yes. But the threat of being called a conservative and
a fascist scares people off
Jean Elshtain:
I would like to say that I am concerned, not with sexual
morality, but with more basic political and economic facts. Over the last
three decades, the tax structure is much less supportive of fami lies with
children than it used to be. And this could be fixed. After some time, it
would have an enormous impact on what happens to kids in school, on
their behavior and relationships. I think we've more and more thrown in
the toweL
Irving Louis Horowitz:
Maybe you are living in a different environ–
ment. But we have to recognize that we represent a very select, stratified
group. We do not represent the university as such. We do not represent
the schools of engineering, of medicine, of business schools. The over–
whelming preponderance of people at the university remain attached and
dedicated to the democratic cu lture. We are really talking about policy–
related areas in the marketplace of ideas, and I'd like to emphasize the
word "marketplace." It is a very even struggle within our narrow world.
In the larger picture I think Digby's right. There is no doubt that the
victory will be with democratic culture. In the narrow world it is a bit
of a struggle, but not an uneven one, nothing we need to be unduly
pessimistic about. I was jotting down names of journals on our side -
Partisan Review, The Public Interest, The National Interest, The American
