Freedom of speech is a right, not an excuse

Lily Halbert-Alexander
The Daily Princetonian

In July, a group of 156 students, alumni, fellows, and faculty at Harvard signed an open letter calling on the university to “impose meaningful and proportionate accountability” on members of its community found to have had significant association with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  One week later, five Harvard faculty members, not themselves accused of association with Epstein, responded in a letter to the editor, in which they claimed that academic freedom was threatened by this demand for accountability.

But their defense of faculty’s free speech and rejection of direct consequences for Epstein associates is not a substantive defense of constitutionally-protected free association. 

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