October 15, 2007

A Glance at the November Issue of International Studies Perspectives: Criticism vs. Threats to Academic Freedom

By Jason M. Breslow

Scholarly criticism, particularly from the political right, is too often mischaracterized as a threat to academic freedom, says Robert J. Lieber, a professor of government and international affairs at Georgetown University. "The problem is much less acute in some disciplines than in others," he writes, "but the resulting effects truncate the kind of critical engagement, or the sifting and winnowing of serious ideas, that best reflects the ideals of the university."

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