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William Cronon
Personal blog · scholarcitizen.williamcronon.netpoliticsculture
William Cronon writes Scholar as Citizen, a personal blog at scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net about politics and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom”. The last post was in 2011, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link William Cronon's blog post on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and its role in Wisconsin politics. Commenters cite it as the origin of the open-records dispute over academic freedom.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
William Cronon's Blog
Most-linked posts?
- /2011/03/15/alec/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-25
- Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-25
What Hacker News says?
Actually, it wasn't the op-ed that occasioned the response, the Republicans launched their request prior to the publication of the op-ed. It was in respones to this blog post: http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/ about the The American Legislative Exchange Council.
Comment linking /2011/03/15/alec/
on “Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom”Submitted Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom as a story · 17 points
HN discussionan impressive and lengthy response to the issues that arose around Prof. Cronon's original piece of ALEC's role in Wisconsin politics (among other things) Original Piece http://scholarcitizen.williamcronon.net/2011/03/15/alec/
Comment linking /2011/03/15/alec/
on “Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom”Submitted Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom as a story · 5 points
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