Emma Pettit
Chronicle of Higher Education
Excerpt: Over the past several years, Republican state lawmakers have filed bill after bill meant to restrict how certain topics can be discussed in public college classrooms. A common conservative complaint — that leftist academics promote flimsy ideology rather than teach hard facts — became more than rhetoric. In some states, it became law.
But what about the First Amendment? What about academic freedom? How much control can a state really impose over professors at public colleges?
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