Previously the controversy was at Cambridge, now Dr. Cofnas has been appointed as a post-doc at the University of Ghent in Belgium, and perhaps predictably, some faculty and students are calling for his appointment to be terminated because of his racist views. This would, of course, be a serious violation of academic freedom: he was appointed based on his scholarly work (I have no evidence to suggest otherwise), so to fire him because the views he develops and defends in his work offend others would cut to the core of the protection academic freedom should afford. Peter Singer and colleagues have, once again, organized a public letter in support of Dr. Cofnas’s academic freedom, which I am pleased to have signed.