Free Speech and Academic Freedom? You bet... so long as we like what you have to say.

This is so often the case in higher education, where PC trumps the First Amendment in too many cases.  Just ask conservative faculty members around our industry.

The latest example occurred at the University of Maryland, where a screening of "American Sniper" was cancelled because some people thought it was anti-Muslim.  Thanks to timely push-back, the film got rescheduled, according to the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/28/after-backlash-u-md-groups-to-screen-american-sniper-and-talk-it-out/

The sad part is that it ever got cancelled in the first place.  I'm sure Mr. Eastwood doesn't need the money.  But that's beside the point... the point being that potential audiences have the right to decide for themselves if they want to see what Eastwood has to offer.

We stifle speech at our peril.  That's a veritable cliche.  And yet we need to keep shouting it out, because the PC police are ver ready to sacrifice this sacred right for the sake of whatever cause they consider more important in the given moment.