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On Death Threats, Pushback, and the Hounding of Frances Fox Piven

As much of the world recently watched footage of assaults on journalists and protesters in Egypt, America?s academics received word of a danger to their own free expression. Frances Fox Piven, a professor of political science and sociology at the City University of New York?s Graduate Center, was getting death threats from followers of Glenn Beck, the conservative commentator.