References and suggested readings:

• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2021. Dangerous Ideas on Campus: Sex, Conspiracy, and Academic Freedom in the Age of JFK. University of Illinois Press.
• Matthew C. Ehrlich. 2024. The Krebiozen Hoax: How a Mysterious Cancer Drug Shook Organized Medicine. University of Illinois Press.
• Pseudoscience and the ethics of academic medicine episode with Matthew C. Ehrlich
• Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth. 2022. It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Mary Anne Franks. 2024. Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment. Bold Type Books.
• Beware of FIRE (and institutional neutrality) episode with Mary Anne Franks
• Jacob Holmes. June 9, 2026. “Auburn board takes control of curricula, dissolves faculty senate.” Alabama Political Reporter.
• Thomas Milan Konda. 2019. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America. University of Chicago Press.
• John Durham Peters. 2020. Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. University of Chicago Press.
• Jim Windolf. 2026. Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World. Scribner.
• Matthew C. Ehrlich’s faculty page

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