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Travis Barham: Crying wolf over faculty speech

By Alliance Alert

ADF Attorney Travis C. Barham writing at Speak Up Movement / University: "Both Inside Higher Ed and Minding the Campus highlight the latest example of academia serving as a network of leftist think tanks. The 'Cry Wolf Project'?organized by 'prominent liberal academics'?is trying to rally faculty and graduate students to do 'battle with conservative ideas.' That is, the organizers will pay $1,000 for essays supposedly showing how conservatives 'cry wolf' by exaggerating the consequences of leftist public policy proposals. K.C. Johnson at Minding the Campus notes the organizer?s almost comically inflated sense of self importance and skewed definition of 'scholarship.' But this project illustrates a more disturbing divide between faculty who can speak freely and those who cannot."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 14, 2010 (boomark / email).