On Extramural Expression: A Response to Jonathan Helwink

BY HANK REICHMAN This week’s controversy over Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher’s tweet about “white genocide” has once again raised the perpetually thorny issue of academic freedom’s claim to protect the “extramural utterances” of faculty members who speak as private citizens.  As of this writing it appears that Drexel administrators have disavowed any intent to…