What Are the Limits of Academic Freedom?
A maddening new book fumbles an important debate.
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A maddening new book fumbles an important debate.
Should academic freedom really protect those who make false and morally repellent claims? It’s time for a rethink.
Kilmeade. we'll get thoughts from you and fox hosts and contributors and celebrities. education advocacy go up is suing several colleges over restrictions to free speech and apparently just beginning. it's challenging campus speech codes. schools insist the policies are meant to promote tolerance and civility. it is already a long hot summer for president obama taking heat over immigration. executive overreach. and the middle east. we'll talk about it with the panel when we come back.
If it's disclosed. i don't think because someone has political views they can't be a professor. >> bill: even if they are working, actively working as a vice chair of the democratic party in the county that the school is in? come on. >> no. like adjunct professor. >> bill: then you have to balance. and there wasn't any balance. >> that's fair. there should be balance. >> bill: well there isn't. how do you see, this kate? >> i think the problem is more institutional wide in our colleges and universe universities in that this sort of liberal activism in the classroom is sort of protected by the ...
Universities in that this sort of liberal activism in the classroom is sort of protected by the university structure. it's protected by these absurd campus speech codes and diversity policies where you can't say anything that would slightly offend somebody which is ironic given what happened to this ryan who was deeply offended. but photographers can do or say whatever they want. but if students step outside the leftist orthodoxy even slightly, they are subject to these sensitivity training classes, to being kicked out of classes to even being expelled. that's sort of the lockdown of intellect...