February 22, 2002

Rule by Those of Little Faith

By CANDACE DE RUSSY

Half a century ago, William F. Buckley chronicled the rise of unbelief among the faculty members of the department of religion at Yale University. In case after case documented in God and Man at Yale, the professor who openly expressed his doubts about orthodoxy invoked the rights of the dissenter. Atheism and agnosticism flew under the flag of academic freedom. Those students and alumni who questioned whether unbelief should be taught in a department of religion were decried as

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