How a fake 'free speech crisis' could imperil academic freedom
- Written by Hannah Forsyth, Senior Lecturer in History, Australian Catholic University
Newtown grafitti/Flickr, CC BYForceful suppression of political and scholarly views in universities has a long and shameful history. University of Cambridge Chancellor John Fisher was hanged, drawn and quartered for failing to support Henry VIII’s “great matter”. A few years later, John Hullier was burned at the stake on...





