This Day Campus Loyalty Oaths [Some Sunday Context]
It's Sunday, and on Sundays we like to bring you new conversations and conversations from the archives that help provide a little context for the stories playing out today. Today, as we see a chilling effect on free speech around the country, we revisit part of our conversation on the history of universities and government funding, and how a lot of pressure was applied during the Cold War era for academics to pledge loyalty to the United States.
Plus, a plug for our upcoming two-parter on the history of chilled speech -- which newsletter subscribers can watch in full right now!
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