{"id":1147,"date":"2005-02-11T10:37:50","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/02\/11\/tenure-and-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2005-02-11T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T14:37:50","slug":"tenure-and-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/02\/11\/tenure-and-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenure and free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a929'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/11\/national\/11professor.html?partner=rssuserland\">This, of course, is why we have security of employment in the university<\/a>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nOtherwise, the conservative political masters of many state and private<br \/>\nuniversities and the liberal orthodoxy of many campuses would stifle<br \/>\nfree inquiry.&nbsp; It protects radical liberal Ward Churchill in the<br \/>\nsame way it protects neo-conservative Harvey Mansfield.<\/p>\n<p>And, as is true with most free speech debates, the people who object<br \/>\nmost strenuously to the ideas expressed forget that they benefit from<br \/>\nthe protections they object to when they say things unpopular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, of course, is why we have security of employment in the university.&nbsp; Otherwise, the conservative political masters of many state and private universities and the liberal orthodoxy of many campuses would stifle free inquiry.&nbsp; It protects radical liberal Ward Churchill in the same way it protects neo-conservative Harvey Mansfield. And, as is true with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivorytower"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-iv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}