The Decline of Freedom at Berkeley
by Lewis S. Feuer After nine years of teaching philosophy and social science at the University of California at Berkeley, Professor Feuer will leave to become professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. His angry appraisal of the “free speech “ explosion at Berkeley and its aftermath is both compelling and provocative, and the ATLANTIC is inviting others who are concerned over the implications of the Berkeley experience to comment on Professor Feuer’s analysis. The author of SPINOZA AND THE RISE OF LIBERALISMand THE SCIENTIFIC INTELLECTUAL, Professor Feuer was an Exchange Scholar at the Soviet Institute of Philosophy in Moscow for four and a half months in 1963.