re: #587 Daniel Ballard

I can see that only if you take it to the extreme. Less of a left leaning environment is not the same as a red scare deal.

Nope. As SFZ said, how do you make that qualification? Who decides what free speech academics are going to be allowed?

Teachers should be hired on their ability to teach their subject and their mastery of it. Politics should not enter into it, except to the extent they are unable to teach their classes. If there’s a professor who’s saying that all Jews are evil, obviously Jewish students aren’t going to learn well in his class.

But short of that, no political statement, position, or philosophy should bar one from teaching. None. Otherwise academic freedom goes straight down the toilet.

Listen to my friend Charles Muscatine on the topic, listen to others.

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