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“In my first year as a young assistant professor at Harvard, the phone in my office rang,” Sandel wrote in an e-mail. “The voice on the other end said, ‘This is John Rawls, R-A-W-L...
What is most pernicious about the English department’s decision to re-invite poet Tom Paulin to Harvard is its representing that decision as a stand for freedom of speech. As a poet and a public agitator against Israel, Paulin has always enjoyed complete freedom of speech. He...
The English department exercised its own freedom of speech by inviting Paulin to give an endowed lecture under its auspices. Precisely because Paulin is so very outspoken, no literate person could doubt what he stood for. The question at issue is therefore not free speech, but the faculty?...
Five professors from the English department performed close readings of controversial texts yesterday as an official response to the department’s decision to cancel and then re-invite Tom Paulin to a prestigious speaking engagement.
His comments come after the English department’s decision last week to cancel and then re-invite Tom Paulin—an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed controversial anti-Israeli views—to a prestigious speaking engagement at Harvard.