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The Confusion Between Free Speech and Academic Freedom

Free speech is the principle that citizens or denizens of a state should be given maximal license to express and speak their viewpoints without intervention from the state. The academy just isn't Hyde Park Corner, you can say anything at Hyde Park Corner that isn't illegal. It's supposed to be a kind of perfect sphere of free expression, but that's not the academy. And anyone who's thought about universities will realize why.

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