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Jacob Levy — What Is Academic Freedom?

The Curious Task

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How to Fire a Professor of Astronomy

In the organizational structure of a university, professors are very powerful. It is an easy temptation to start just offering your free lance, extra mural nions about stuff that you 're not teaching," he says. "Once they start editorializing about political or religious questions, then we're very much into the domain of wrong, wrong topics infiltrating and corrupting the professor's use of the classroom power"

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