The latest technique used by conservatives to silence liberal academics is to demand copies of e-mails and other documents. Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli of Virginia tried it last year with a climate-change scientist, and now the Wisconsin Republican Party is doing it to a distinguished historian who dared to criticize the state?s new union-busting law. These demands not only abuse academic freedom, but make the instigators look like petty and medieval inquisitors.
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