{"id":854,"date":"2020-07-19T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2020-08-22T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T18:29:35","slug":"kindly-inquisitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Kindly Inquisitors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Kindly Inquisitors<\/em> by Jonathan Rauch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonathan Rauch wrote this book in 1993 as a warning against the suppression on college campuses of free speech, criticism, and inquiry, perpetrated by the left in service of egalitarian and humanitarian values such as &#8220;fairness&#8221; and &#8220;avoidance of harm&#8221; but which stifle the evolution of knowledge. The danger has only gotten more grave and now applies in settings far from college campuses. In 2013 he re-issued his book with a new afterward and a dedication to Frank Kameny, as an example of how moral and political progress requires the open expression of ideas and unregulated argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindly Inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch Jonathan Rauch wrote this book in 1993 as a warning against the suppression on college&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=854\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kindly Inquisitors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-diary","category-writing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}