It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 2022), by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth, is a lively romp through some familiar flashpoints in academic political culture. Cancel Culture, Critical Race Theory, Black Lives Matter, the Alt-Right, race science, Amy Wax, Charles Murray, Andrew Burtz—it’s all here. Bérubé and Ruth make no pretense of sober impartiality or scholarly restraint—they are opinionated from the first page, quick to pass partisan judgment, identify the rightly and wrongly accused, who had it coming and who got off easy. No dry, ponderous academic plodding here. Keep Reading…