Speak Freely, Professor -- Within the Speech Code

For some years now, I have been troubled by an odd shift that has taken place in academic circles. The battle cry of "academic freedom" is still aimed at assaults from outside the academy -- no longer McCarthyism, but now corporatization and privatization. Yet encroachments on academic freedom from inside -- speech codes and antiharassment policies, for example -- are tolerated, indeed welcomed. Opposing the former makes one progressive. Protesting the latter gets

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