|
| The Naval Academy Thinks Midshipmen Can't Handle the Truth
|
| For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of
| lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the
| U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to
| continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on
| the theme of wisdom.
|
| Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a
| call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the
| recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from
| the Nimitz library on campus?
| ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/naval-academy-speech-censorship.html>
|
| The Naval Academy Thinks Midshipmen Can't Handle the Truth
|
| For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of
| lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the
| U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to
| continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on
| the theme of wisdom.
|
| Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a
| call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the
| recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from
| the Nimitz library on campus?
| ...
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/naval-academy-speech-censorship.html>
--bks
On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:12:11 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] (Bradley K.
Sherman) wrote:
|
| The Naval Academy Thinks Midshipmen Can't Handle the Truth
|
| For the past four years, I have been delivering a series of
| lectures on the virtues of Stoicism to midshipmen at the
| U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and I was supposed to
| continue this on April 14 to the entire sophomore class on
| the theme of wisdom.
|
| Roughly an hour before my talk was to begin, I received a
| call: Would I refrain from any mention in my remarks of the
| recent removal of 381 supposedly controversial books from
| the Nimitz library on campus?
| ... >><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/naval-academy-speech-censorship.html>
--bks
Oddly Bradley never complains when conservatives are told they can't
say something at commencement ceremonies.
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