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On tenure and civility
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On tenure and civility

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Carl Beijer
May 20, 2016
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Most major academic institutions in the world have some form of tenure. There are all kinds of historical and economic reasons for this, but in liberal societies there has always been a philosophical justification as well.

The theory, as it is usually laid out, is that intellectual institutions must protect free speech and robust debate from censorship a…

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