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Podcast: So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
Episode: Alice Dreger on Academic Freedom
Description: Every year, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education puts out a list of the 10 worst colleges for free speech. And this year, surprisingly, half of the schools on the list earned their spot because they threatened faculty's right to speak out in some way. One institution on that list was Northwestern University. Last year, Northwestern made headlines for its extraordinary attacks on academic freedom on two separate occasions. Once for its 72-day Title IX investigation into Professor Laura Kipnis' public writings and comments about sexual politics on campus. And on another occasion, for its...