The dumbing down of Marquette …

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The university seems not to have read through to the last line. It is trying to fire McAdams precisely because he exercised his academic and personal freedoms of thought, discourse, advocacy and action. I may not entirely approve of the way he exercised them, but that's beside the point -- no, actually, it's exactly the point. We don't need protections for speech that everyone approves of.

Bear in mind I am the proud alumnus of a Jesuit school.