Show FREEDOM OF INQUIRY it is is not the known communists and their followers fol loeis who present the greatest threat to the united states it is is their dupes those citizens who take pride in in then their alleged capacity i to view all sides of a question with the impartial eye of a i surgeon while managing to avoid the expression of personal conviction these intellectual drifters are a threat to freedom that is is difficult to measure mca suie because in in many instances then their veneer of impartiality hides bitter animosity to the american system in ili other oilier words they do have convictions the wrong uong kind and they espouse them subtly in textbooks on government and economics i raymond moley a well known commentator comment for newsweek magazine recently lecent ly described a text of this nature the introduction says mi ir moley bears the presumptuous sumptuous pic i claim that the book provides pio vides students certain cei tain basic tools of analysis it is is a complication of articles ai tides accompanied by the authors interpretations the net ot of all these articles ai tides declared mr moley is is that competition is is dying or dead that a few corporations control economic economic life that only the state must be allowed to save us its and that government planning is is essential this was and is is tile the philosophy of british socialism ism there was no effort to include tile the views views of those who disagree with this thesis open advocacy of ideas is is one thing but presenting those ideas while wearing a cloak ot of judicious ludi cious impartiality is is the height of hypocrisy and deserves dese ives nothing but contempt textbooks in in schools and universities have become a favorite medium for weakening convictions destroying desti faith ill in the individual and opening the door to mass coercion freedom of inquiry is is a basic right light it should be exercised by b parents as well ell as professors our institutions of higher education which enjoy freedom of expression and action should be judged more moie critically on then their textbooks and their teachers tea cheis with the thought of upholding instead of undermining american traditions |