Serious question: If the whole point of tenure, historically, was to protect professors who express controversial views, why do so few tenured professors today express controversial views? What are some specific reasons? (I'm working on an article about this.)
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How do you know that "so few" are expressing controversial views? Perhaps we expect "controversial views" to fall in just a few categories (race, politics, abortion, etc.) when, in fact, tenured profs are expressing controversial views in their own (narrow) academic disciplines?
Sure, but I'm talking about broader engagement that opens professors to public criticism on issues of general interest.
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But that implies a different question. Not “why don’t professors hold controversial views,” but “why don’t professors express more controversial views to the general public?”
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That's right. While academic freedom extends to a prof's extramural speech on matters outside their expertise, is that our expectation?
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I would like to see some work showing that people don't do such work.
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