"A clear and present danger", Zoe Corbyn, Christoph Bode and David Gunkel.
Times Higher Education, 11 février 2010.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410297&c=2
Manyscholars feel that their freedom to question is in danger of beingeroded or even lost. Zoe Corbyn examines the threat in the UK, whileChristoph Bode and David Gunkel consider the state of affairs in Europeand America.
There is an online retailer in the UK that sells T-shirts marketedspecifically at academics. Most of them feature geek jokes and nerdhumour (one sports the slogan "Chillin' with my genomes", another aRubik's Cube image), but one carries an amended version of the popularshort poem First they came. The original by Pastor Martin Niemoller wasa rebuke to the intellectuals who stood by while the Nazis purged groupafter group of "undesirables" ("First they came for the communists, andI did not speak out - because I was not a communist ;"). The T-shirtmakes changes to detail the lack of voices defending black people, gaypeople and "bleeding-heart liberals", but it leaves the final lineintact : "Then they came for me and there was no one to speak up forme."
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