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...common perception was that Harvard was unusually good in comparison to other universities in terms of protecting academic freedom,” says Julie A. Reuben, a historian of higher education and professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education...
...Reuben says the understanding of academic freedom has changed since the 1950s, when it often meant that faculty could publish or speak freely only within their own field...
According to Reuben, the more modern understanding of intellectual liberties developed in the 1960s...
...Universities, like the rest of society, over-responded to the threat of communism,” Reuben says...
...wondering whether combining porn and economics makes economics interesting or porn boring, it's the former.) He follows the money down some dark alleys: into peep shows and prisons, subterranean high-tech hydroponic pot farms and camouflaged, garbage-strewn encampments of illegal Mexican farmworkers. He introduces us to Reuben Sturman, a humble Cleveland comic-book salesman who became the founding father of America's $10 billion porn industry and who deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured loser who got a life sentence--without parole--for his peripheral role in one marijuana deal...