Some Harvard scholars demand return to academic freedom, free speech on campus

As controversy engulfs Harvard University, three of its professors recently censured administrators for promulgating leftist ideology at the expense of academic freedom and called for a return to free speech and open inquiry on campus.

Law Professor J. Mark Ramseyer, psychology Professor Steven Pinker, and Professor of Medicine Jeffrey Flier are all members of the Council on Academic Freedom, a group formed last April by over 70 Harvard professors to promote free speech and inquiry.

Ramseyer criticized the growing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion bureaucracy at Harvard, noting in an email to The College Fix that “the DEI statements required of job applicants are a straightforward political loyalty oath.”