Yale University Press Censorship
Jytte Klausen’s The Cartoons that Shook the World, a book just lately published by Yale University Press, has none of the the cartoons of Mohammed which lately caused such an uproar in Europe. We now find that YUP’s academic readers were unanimously enthusiastic about publishing the book uncensored. YUP, which apparently began to get cold politically correct feet, went outside the readers’ committee and asked for other opinions. One of the extra readers claimed she was contacted by the Yale president’s office. See PMJ for the latest. Roger Kimball and others who watch academe wonder at possible donors who would possibly withhold money from Yale if such a book is published. We shall see.
I wonder what the American Association of University Professors will say about the clear censorship and the violation of Klausen’s academic freedom? If ever there were more of a clear cut case of censorship this is it.