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Columbia University President and once-Harvard presidential candidate Lee C. Bollinger did academia and the cause of academic freedom proud this week.Bollinger was harshly criticized from all sides for hosting a forum with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the controversial president of Iran, and attacking Ahmadinejad in a fiery introduction. But by inviting a powerful and important—though abhorrent—figure and peppering his guest with pointed questions, Bollinger showed the true nature of academic debate: that all are free to speak but none are free from scrutiny.The controversy surrounding an invitation to an Iranian president is not alien...
...Columbia University, the nation’s sixth-oldest institution of higher learning, academic freedom allegedly reigns supreme. The administration there welcomed, to their ivied quads, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a virulent international opponent of the United States who in his country has presided over the dissolution of civil rights, an escalating assault on religious minorities, and the continued encroachment on free speech—everything anathema to a university proud of diversity and openness. And, moreover, they gave him a forum from which he might ridicule everything for which the university—and our country—should...
...exchange of discourse. But only those who have an underdeveloped sense of irony can truly believe this a cause to celebrate. “Academic freedom” may claim agnosticism as to the value of differing opinions, insisting only that each should be heard and considered. Academic freedom, however, itself implies a value: that inquiry should be free and opposing views respected. What a farce to invite a speaker, under the auspices of “academic freedom,” who not only opposes that premise, but has dedicated his public career to undermining...
...home to four self-named December Boys (for their birthdays) linked by the same distant desire of adoption by doting parents. When they are taken on holiday to a bucolic cove beside an unfamiliar seaside, they find themselves empowered—and sometimes divided—by the unbridled freedom. The pace is slow and episodic. The audience sees the predictable rifts arise between the boys—Maps (Daniel Radcliffe), Misty (Lee Cormie), Sparks (Christian Byers), and Spit (James Fraser)—as a desperate search to find stability tears them in different directions. Each struggle...
...tired public might welcome the coalition of strange bedfellows that gave their country political freedom and economic growth. Not the worst of all possible combinations - particularly, if kept in check by the fiery Tymoshenko from the opposition bench...