Today’s Orthodoxies Put Quotation Marks Around ‘Freedom’

A sign for the University of Sussex, in East Sussex, England, on July 24, 2018 Racho_m via Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0

Commentary

How revealing a little punctuation mark may be! A recent headline in the left-leaning, once liberal newspaper, the Guardian, ran a story with a headline as follows: “University defends ‘academic freedoms’ after calls to sack professor.”