Academic Freedom Is a Radical, Open Ended Free Speech, a Kind of Hyde Park Stands Toward What Professors Say

Academic freedom says that those extra mural utterances don't count as reasons for the university to act against its scholars. You may not be punished for your political and religious unorthodoxy in your capacity as a scientist, a philosopher or an instructor. So thi is kind of radical, open ended free speech, a kind of hyde park stands toward what professors say when they're not on the job.