REPRESSIVE VS. LIBERATING INTOLERANCE. Both Betsy's Page and Joanne Jacobs point to a Daphne Patai essay noting a new interest in academic freedom as an absolute value. To quote Joanne Jacobs, "Campus Watch and No Indoctrination are causing acute goosebumps in academia." As I noted some time ago, "It's really very simple, if one thinks about it. Give John Ashcroft no power you'd fear to see in Janet Reno's hands, and give Catherine MacKinnon no power you'd fear to see in mine."