Academia should be a bastion of intellectual freedom, but this retraction shows writers are expected to keep the status quoPlaywrights who speak out often suffer a backlash. It happened to Harold Pinter in Britain, and the latest example is Tony Kushner in the US. He was supposed to receive an honorary degree from John Jay College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), but it's now been vetoed because of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:57AM on May 6, 2011