Academic Freedom under Fire

Cole defends how one can do better at defending academic freedom than one's predecessors did in the 1950s. To do so, one must convince the public that a failure to defend dissenting voices on the campus places at risk the greatest engine for creation of new ideas and scientific innovation the w...

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Veröffentlicht in:Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2005-03, Vol.134 (2), p.5-17
1. Verfasser: Cole, Jonathan R.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Cole defends how one can do better at defending academic freedom than one's predecessors did in the 1950s. To do so, one must convince the public that a failure to defend dissenting voices on the campus places at risk the greatest engine for creation of new ideas and scientific innovation the world has ever known. And above all, one must show that a threat to academic freedom poses a threat as well to the welfare and prosperity of the nation.
ISSN:0011-5266
1548-6192
DOI:10.1162/0011526053887310