George Leef, director of research for the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, discusses the new Pope Center report from Donald Downs, Academic Freedom: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and How to Tell the Difference. Leef offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 317).
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