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How a fake ‘free speech crisis’ could imperil academic freedom

How a fake ‘free speech crisis’ could imperil academic freedom

Forceful suppression of political and scholarly views in universities has a long and shameful history. University of Cambridge Chancellor John Fisher was hanged, drawn and quartered for failing to support Henry VIII’s “great matter”. A few years later, John Hullier was burned at the stake on Cambridge’s Jesus Green for refusing to renounce Protestantism. We imagine our modern universities […] … learn more→