Solomonia points out that the claim making the rounds with respect to the controversy over granting tenure to Norman Finkelstein at DePaul University (that campus outsiders opining on the fitness of a tenure candidate violate academic freedom) is “nonsense.” In fact, the unsolicited letter (in this case now famously sent to DePaul as testimony against Finkelstein’s fitness by Alan Dershowitz of Harvard) has a “long and honorable place” in the academy.