Academia and Christians: Professor Kenneth Howell and Dr Tali Argov
Two similar tales of Christian academics faring poorly within academia.
The first from the UK:
The Daily Telegraph carries a depressing story today about Dr Tali Argov, a Jewish Israeli lecturer at Oxford who claims she was discriminated against after converting to Christianity:
The second from the US:
Though Professor Kenneth Howell has just been reinstated by the University of Illinois after his dismissal for defending Catholic moral teaching to students, his case has major implications for academic freedom. It is surely optimistic to believe that he will be the last academic in the US or the UK to fall foul of a ‘hate speech’ complaint.
If universities in the US and UK start firing academics for sins of speech against political correctness, consider what they would have to do with some of the texts that are taught on their courses. Here is an extract from John Le Carre’s classic novel, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, first published in 1963:
Tags: Christianity, Education