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The Value Of The Marketplace Of Ideas: Academic Freedom In The American Academy, Daniel J. Perrone
The Value Of The Marketplace Of Ideas: Academic Freedom In The American Academy, Daniel J. Perrone
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This dissertation surveys several landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases of academic freedom in the 20th and 21st century to argue for the value of a tolerant and liberal interpretation of unrestricted academic freedom. Central to its argument is a defense of Oliver Wendell Holmes 1919 ruling in Abrams that society is best served where all expressions are tested in a “marketplace of ideas,” a term first used by John Stuart Mill in his 1859 essay, “On Liberty.” In an era of increasing casualization of academic labor (the adjunct labor force) and political paranoia about terror, I conclude that the continual …