Here’s an excellent piece in the Notre Dame paper by law professor Paolo Carroza on the Current Troubles at the university. (Annoying thing – there’s no "single page view" option, so one must click through 4 separate pages. Grrr. But it’s worth it)

His piece concentrates on the meaning of "academic freedom," working from the starting point of Jenkins’ address:

One part of University President John Jenkins’ address on academic freedom and Catholic character that has largely been overlooked is also one of the most challenging and consequential. Jenkins lauded the "scholarly temperament" as one of the highest ideals of the University of Notre Dame, a quality which he described as "a Socratic conviction about one’s ignorance, and a corresponding willingness to entertain questions and various answers to them." He went on to note that such a temperament "demands an appreciation of the complexities in any area of reality, high standards of inquiry and inference, a reluctance to settle for the current synthesis, and a resistance to a premature closure of questions."

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