Three hundred academics sign an open letter against young scientist Dr. Noah Carl demanding Cambridge rethink his fellowship and offering not much else.
Manhattan Institute fellow Heather Mac Donald discusses her experience of being mobbed on campus, the free speech crisis afflicting American universities and more.
“I am dismayed that so many academics are willing to sign a letter calling for the rescinding of an academic appointment, without offering any specifics either as to the errors that the appointee has allegedly committed, or to flaws in the appointment procedure...
...Academic freedom is a foundational principle of the modern university, while the principle that one provide evidence or reasoning for the claims one makes is the basis of any rational inquiry. For a university to act on a letter that attacks an appointee without offering any evidence to support the sweeping claims it makes, would be to go against both these principles. How could so many academics sign a letter that asks a university to do that?”
I’m the former Editor-in-Chief of Kvartal, a Swedish language magazine offering new perspectives and deeper insights on sensitive topics, much like Quillette. Apart from speaking the Scandinavian languages, I am fluent in German and Polish and am a trained lawyer.
