In Defence of Academic Freedom

16Oct07

The admirable DePaul Academic Freedom Committee held a discussion last Friday about the threats to academic freedom in the U.S., featuring the likes of Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer (of ‘The Israeli Lobby’ fame). The audio is up below, courtesy of Chicago Indymedia.

Tariq Ali’s introduction:

Noam Chomsky:

Akeel Bilgrami:

Tony Judt:

John Mearsheimer:

Q&A period:

Evan Lorendo, Academic Freedom Committee, DePaul University:

Mehrene Larudee:

Neve Gordon:

Norman Finkelstein:

Finkelstein and Chomsky are particularly good, but they’re all worth a listen.


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  1. 1 Victor on October 16, 2007 said:

    I really liked Neve Gordon’s speech!

  2. 2 JamieSW on October 16, 2007 said:

    Yes, he’s a good speaker, and seems like a really nice bloke as well.

  3. 3 salahudin on October 17, 2007 said:

    hey there… i’m one of your regular readers… not regular commentator though. love your blog…

    i thought you may like to sign this petition:

    “principles of peace”
    http://www.petitiononline.com/Peace787/petition.html

    and if you could, put it up as a post on your blog? let’s get thousands of signature on this..>!!

  4. 4 black_mamba on October 17, 2007 said:

    Is this gonna Kill You? No i Dont Think so !

  5. 5 JamieSW on October 17, 2007 said:

    cheers, salahudin. I’ve linked it on the sidebar on the right.

  6. 6 salahudin on October 18, 2007 said:

    cheers! i love reading your blog… care to exchange blogroll links? you’ve been on our blog for a while already….

    most of us (Towelians) are social liberals and libertarians… and almost all 65+ of us share a LOT of your points of view… :)

    we’re also apostates of islam who don’t hate on islam – we satirize religion. hope you like our blog

  7. 7 Narvir on October 18, 2007 said:

    I went to the pub with Neve Gordon!

  8. 8 JamieSW on October 18, 2007 said:

    salahudin: thanks. yeh, sure.

    Narvir: didn’t.


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