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...lives are, by and large, extralegal. They do not donate to politicians and they do not vote. Their trade demands that they shed their citizenry, that they give up the privileges and protections of society for them and their families. The law does not demur to strip away their freedom, and they fill up the ranks of inmates in wild overproportion—over 55 percent of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses...
Only those who mouth platitudes without considering the situation at hand cannot see this silliness for what it is: academic freedom ironically parodying itself...
...editorial alleges that this episode demonstrates that “the University of California has ceased to value academic freedom.” This view is apparently based on the notion that the planned Summers talk would somehow have advanced the “marketplace of ideas,” but in fact Summers would not have been giving a public speech in which the validity of his ideas on the proper place of women in science (or on any other topic) could be debated...
This controversy has nothing to do with academic freedom. Summers remains entirely free to present his views to university audiences and to the public at large, and I look forward to the day when he defend his views in public, whether at UC or elsewhere...
...After 9/11, there were thousands of stories of suffering, each exquisitely painful. But Head's tragedy was different. It was a story of surviving one tower - only to be metaphorically crushed by another. And ironically, it may have been the unimaginable scale of her suffering that gave her the freedom to tell her story any way she wanted, without the burdens of consistency or specificity. Then again, that could all be hindsight talking...