https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2010/01/05/heading-em-off-the-pass-department-thoughts-on-the-right-to-offend/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 09:17:10 -0400<![CDATA[Yesterday, I was speaking with a friend who has inside knowledge about the episode of Yale and the Danish cartoons&#8211;you know, the story of how Yale University Press, together with the Yale administration, insisted at the last minute that Jytte Klausen&#8217;s book The Cartoons that Shook the World be published without the cartoons and, indeed, without any depictions of Mohammed. John Donatich, director of the Yale University Press, and various members of the Yale Administration covered themselves with ignominy both in their original decision to censor Professor Klausen&#8217;s book and in their response to the almost universal criticism their decision occasioned. &#8220;We deplore this decision and its potential consequences,&#8221; wrote Cary Nelson, President of the AAUP in a blistering open letter titled &#8220;Academic Freedom Abridged at Yale Press,&#8221; which sums up the case nicely.]]>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:57:15 -0500<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2010/01/05/heading-em-off-the-pass-department-thoughts-on-the-right-to-offend-n116188