I’m all for academic freedom, particularly since I’m an academic myself. But that fellow at Northwestern…does he teach classes that are required? Does he “enjoy” full enrollment of his courses? What about the professor in Florida who aggressively pursued claims that the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre was a fake? I couldn’t in good conscience pay for my college-aged children to sit in the classroom with such deluded kooks. It IS tough to weigh academic freedom versus simple decency and acceptance of facts. I live in a state in which the state legislature has gone after professors’ emails because of their union support. It IS a slippery path. But still…