Discuss “Leave academic freedom to the academics”

Conservative columnist David Horowitz, who has been trying to push legislation on the national and state levels to protect conservative students from what he calls ?liberal bias,? claimed a victory at the news of the Harrisburg?s decision.

Liberals went on the offensive ? rightly so, but their approach has been ineffectual. Fortunately, the American Council on Education set out in the right direction when instead of lashing out with nonsense, they drafted the ?Statement on Academic Rights and Responsibilities.?

Horowitz?s ?Academic Bill of Rights? pushes some fairly innocuous ideas into dangerous territory with artful wordplay: curricula ?should reflect the uncertainty and unsettled character of all human knowledge? by ?providing students...