Washington (2006)
The "Academic Bill of Rights"—really more a bill of
restrictions, is a misleading, politically motivated attempt to
restrict academic freedom and free speech. David Horowitz and his
followers claim that conservative professors are discriminated against
in the hiring process and that liberal professors use their classrooms
to indoctrinate students, neither of which is true and Horowitz knows
it. He is using this claim to advance a policy, the academic bill of
restrictions, which would force professors to favor academic balance
and sensitivity over rigorous scholarship, thereby undermining academic
freedom and free speech.
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