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A Discussion with the Authors of FIRE‘s ”Scholars Under Fire” Report

The Academic Freedom Podcast

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The Ideological Political Component of Scholars

We decided to limit inclusion to scholars who were targeted for ideological reasons. And so, you know, even in the case of something like a Brett Kavanaugh ... we included him because there were explicit sanction attempts surrounding his political views. It's not to say that we like fire when it's a legal matter protect the right of some scholars, it's good to leave it. We chose for this purpose to focus on scholars who because of their expression in various contexts and saying their scholarship, their teaching, social media, office, blogs, public comments,.

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