ACTA in the NewsAcademic Freedom
When the Guild Shows Its Hand: The AAUP and AFT Just Told Us What They Think Academic Freedom Is For.
Speaking as chair of the Faculty Senate, University of Michigan history professor Derek […]
Renowned legal scholar, professor, columnist, and commentator Jonathan Turley joins ACTA’s Dr. Steven McGuire on Higher Ed Now to discuss why free speech has always been America’s most revolutionary and indispensable right; how academia spawned the latest, and perhaps most dangerous, campaign against free speech; and why an enriching college experience should resemble the famous bar scene from Star Wars: A New Hope. Turley’s new book is titled The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.
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