Academic Freedom

Via Juan Cole, we have for you an excellent essay on academic freedom. Since it's a valuable and valued freedom, naturally enough, right-wing extremists hate it. And why not? Academic freedom is the reason why we are beset by evils like evolutionary theory and research on, say, child abuse.

Yes, we can all get behind the destruction of academic freedom, can't we?

I hope that David Horowitz's epitaph reads as follows: David Horowitz: The American Lysenko.

I think that would be appropriate.

The essay is rather important; I wish you would go and read it.