The state of academia today - "academic freedom" is hazardous to proper opinion.

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Harvard senior: We cannot allow "academic freedom" if it includes improper thoughts ...

"It is tempting to decry frustrating restrictions on academic research as violations of academic freedom. Yet I would encourage student and worker organizers to instead use a framework of justice. After all, if we give up our obsessive reliance on the doctrine of academic freedom, we can consider more thoughtfully what is just."
SOURCE URL: http://www.thecrimson.com/column/the-red-line/article/2014/2/18/academic-freedom-justice/?page=single


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  • Posted by khalling 10 years, 6 months ago
    My favorite line was those on the right can promote their solution of economic freedom to choose but social justice has the moral upper hand. ( paraphrase)
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