The War on Tenure

The scandal at Duke is one part of a much larger struggle on our campuses to preserve faculty tenure rights and the academic freedoms they are meant to secure—most crucially, the freedom to express views in accordance with one's moral conscience. These battles are often framed in terms of liberal administrators who are out to silence what few conservative voices are left in academia. But this is a misleading narrative. As is well documented, administrators have gone after liberal professors as well—at times ruthlessly, and with no regard for tenure rights or the due process that is supposed to come with them.