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Michael Knowles highlighted the title as the work that launched the modern conservative movement, noting that it satirized the left's claimed devotion to academic freedom. He presented the book as a critique of extreme notions of free inquiry that he said were not truly embraced. The discussion conveyed a strong endorsement of its impact on conservative thought.
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It was mentioned as a book that launched the modern conservative movement, mocking the extreme idea of academic freedom that the left often claimed to support.
William F. Buckley Jr., when he launched the modern conservative movement, he did so with a book called God and Man at Yale, The Superstitions of Academic Freedom in which he mocked this extreme idea of academic freedom that the left pretends to embrace but they don't even really embrace.