The Hawaii case is clear-cut: the law school acted wrongfully and violated the academic freedom rights of the professor. The administrators at the University of Hawaii need a lesson in core AAUP academic freedom principles. The LSU case is ambiguous at this stage, but highly suspicious. Faculty do not have a right to discuss unrelated political topics during classtime, but they certainly have the right to discuss political issues, even controversial ones, relevant to the subject-matter. Given that Louisiana Governor Landry is an open enemy of the First Amendment and academic freedom, one suspects the worst.
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I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that