To the Editor:
It could have been interesting to read Joan Scott’s argument that academic boycotts actually support academic freedom. Instead, alas, she devoted much of her article to an ad hominem attack on Cary Nelson, who apparently committed the offense of holding a contrary view. Seriously, what possible difference could it make that he protested her proposed Bellagio conference almost 20 years ago? However valid or invalid her evident grudge, it tells us nothing about the impact of a boycott on academic freedom.
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