Source: ProSocial Libertarians
by Andrew Jason Cohen
“I recently heard Jill Lepore, professor of history at Harvard University, on The Good Fight podcast. In discussing campus culture, she expressed dismay at the fact that some of her students had refused to read the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision (1857), which she had assigned. They refused, apparently, because it would cause them (or perhaps others) pain to read a defense of slavery in the United States. … Students need to know — and do know — that they do not stand on desks in their classrooms, that they do not lecture to the class (unless the professor assigns that to them), and a host of other things. That has always included — and ought to still include — the simple fact that professors, like all teachers, make the assignments and they, the students, do them or get lower grades. This is simply how the institution works.” (12/29/25)