In this week’s Clarion Call I review a recent book on academic freedom by Professor Robert O’Neil.
It’s an admirably thorough investigation of the subject, but I maintain that O’Neil pushes the concept of academic freedom too far. It’s one thing to say that professors should not be told what they may or may not research and write about, but quite another to contend that “outsiders” should just stay out of public university admission policies — affirmative action in particular — because deciding which students should be admitted is part of “academic freedom.”
