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Back in 2005. Although this incident probably helped shorten his tenure as Harvard President (there are no academic freedom rights to administrative appointments), it had no effect on his actual academic freedom, his tenured position at Harvard, and so on.
Back in 2019. Since Professor Stock was drummed out of the academy, there has been less bad behavior, although I'm sure the miscreants will rise to the occasion again should the opportunity arise. The only hopeful news is that some of those miscreants have departed the academy altogether in the interim.
Back in 2016. Law professor David Noll (Rutgers) reminded me of it on Twitter, noting that it had (alas) "held up extremely well" as an analysis of the monster child.
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