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The missing points on the Milton Friedman Institute
Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I think the collective faculty letter criticizing the creation of the University of Chicago’s Milton Friedman Institute is both correct and beside the point. The faculty point out that the investment of $200 million in this new entity will privilege a certain view of markets associated with Friedman, […]
Academic freedom threats, the real version
The vet who writes My cat ate my homework has a poignant list of scientists whose academic jobs and sometimes lives have been threatened because they taught evolutionary science. (Hat tip.)
A boycott call by another name smells as daft…
British academics are at it again, and Chris Goff is right: the call for faculty “to consider the moral and political implications of educational links with Israeli institutions” is a back-door way to call for a boycott without calling for a boycott. The University and College Union has never asked its faculty to “consider the […]
What to do with scoundrels
Since Mike Petrilli’s May 12 blog post, arguing that AERA should not allow Bill Ayers to sit on its executive committee, there has been a host of responses, criticisms of Petrilli from Eduwonkette and Marc Dean Millot, and then rebuttals by Petrilli, Diane Ravitch, and Jeff Kuhner. And don’t forget the last Gadfly podcast, when […]
The difference between being wrong and being fired
Aaron Barlow has it on the nose when he discusses Academic Freedom and Yoo. Fundamentally, once UC Berkeley’s law school hired John Yoo as a tenured faculty member, it owed him due process in any disciplinary proceeding, both substantive and procedural due process. The fact that his actions as a government lawyer are obnoxious and […]