University Professors Against Academic Freedom
University Professors Against Academic Freedom Daniel McCarthy | 11:29 PM on June 15, 2026 AP Photo/Charles Krupa Does academic freedom have a greater enemy than the American Association of University Professors?With millions of dollars in backing from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AAUP recently set up a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF) that's about as accurately named as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. "I would love to strategically map who these f---ers are, and figure out what the weaknesses are, and design a research agenda that just goes through them and tries to knock them out," Kamola continued.
- ▪University Professors Against Academic Freedom Daniel McCarthy | 11:29 PM on June 15, 2026 AP Photo/Charles Krupa Does academic freedom have a greater enemy than the American Association of University Professors?With millions of dollars in
- ▪Mellon Foundation, the AAUP recently set up a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF) that's about as accurately named as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- ▪"I would love to strategically map who these f---ers are, and figure out what the weaknesses are, and design a research agenda that just goes through them and tries to knock them out," Kamola continued.
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University Professors Against Academic Freedom Daniel McCarthy | 11:29 PM on June 15, 2026 AP Photo/Charles Krupa Does academic freedom have a greater enemy than the American Association of University Professors?With millions of dollars in backing from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the AAUP recently set up a Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom (CDAF) that's about as accurately named as the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); Instead of defending academic freedom, the director of the AAUP's center wants to stamp out some of the last vestiges of viewpoint diversity on today's campuses.In the face of…
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