Firing Line

Firing Line

Academic Freedom and Berkeley (2x3)


Air date: Jan 16, 1967

We eventually get to Berkeley-where the Free Speech Movement and associated radicalisms had completely broken down academic discipline-but before that, we have a never-the-twain-shall-meet discussion of which views might and which might not, under the tenets of academic freedom, disqualify a scholar from being hired by a university.

  • Premiered: Apr 1966
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