The latest controversy in the dispute about whether academic freedom should equate with freedom from scholarship is again at Columbia University (well, it’s sister, Barnard College), this time in discussions about whether anthropologist Nadia Abu el-Haj’s work–a single book–merits tenure, a lifelong guarantee of employment regardless of future productivity. It’s a decision for Barnard College to make, but readers may find interesting this lengthy Middle East Quarterly review of her controversial book from Summer 2003.