The Death of John Stuart Mill

By STANLEY KURTZ

For conservatives it's been tough to speak openly on campus for decades. Knowing the politics of my field (anthropology), and mindful of Stanley Fish's 1990 call to bar some members of the National Association of Scholars from curriculum and tenure committees at Duke University, for years I avoided joining the association. When I finally threw caution to the wind (still carefully directing mailings to my home, not college), I discovered that my clever association chapter in Boston used