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Right Thinking: Admiration for a defender of intellectual liberty
Andrew C. Spiropoulos
Over the last several months, a spate of news stories about him has inspired me to remember one of my great college teachers, political scientist Jeffrey Poelvoorde.
I’m grateful for the fond memories, but, unfortunately, they were evoked by Poelvoorde nearly becoming a prize victim of the suffocating political correctness and increasing authoritarianism that has infected many college and university leaders.
To understand Poelvoorde’s actions, you have to know something about what he is like. I confess I wasn’t happy to draw him for my undergraduate constitutional law classes – he was a one-year visitor stepping in for the well-regarded professor who usually taught the courses.