University Professors Against Academic Freedom

Does academic freedom have a greater enemy than the American Association of University Professors?
With millions of dollars in backing from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AAUP recently set up a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF) that’s about as accurately named as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Instead of defending academic freedom, the director of the AAUP’s center wants to stamp out some of the last vestiges of viewpoint diversity on today’s campuses.
In the face of overwhelming hostility from hiring committees — and often outright,…
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