Don Luskin (co-author of the new book I Am John Galt) has a good piece in today’s Wall Street Journal on the flap over the Koch Foundation’s support for the economics department at Florida State.

I’d be willing to bet my last dollar that not one of the complaining parties has ever read anything published by the current members of the FSU economics department and couldn’t mount an intelligent counterargument even if he did. Nevertheless, because the Koch brothers are involved, the angry, authoritarian Left automatically denounces the prospect for having too many free-market scholars on the faculty. They don’t want to engage with arguments that clash with their own beliefs; it’s so much easier just to declare them to be “propaganda.”

Academic freedom? There is no threat to anyone’s freedom to write or say whatever he wants.