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K.C. JOHNSON: BASTARDIZING ACADEMIC FREEDOM: A newly announced project called ?Crying Wolf,? org?

By Glenn Reynolds

K.C. JOHNSON: BASTARDIZING ACADEMIC FREEDOM:

A newly announced project called “Crying Wolf,” organized out of the Center on Policy Initiatives, seems blithely unconcerned with any requirements associated with academic freedom. As John has noted, project coordinators Peter Dreier (a distinguished professor of politics at Occidental College), Nelson Lichtenstein (a historian of 20th century U.S. history at UC Santa Barbara who directs the university’s Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy), and Donald Cohen, CPI executive director, are recruiting professors and graduate students (in “history, sociology, economics, political science, planning, public health, and public policy”) to perform “paid academic research” that can “serve in the battle with conservative ideas.”

The initiative is open about its biases: it intends to “construct a counter narrative” against what it describes as conservative opinions about taxation and regulation policy.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).