Deepening this turmoil, two axioms prevail about free speech on campus: everyone knows what free speech is; and free speech is as indispensable there as everywhere else. His ideas reflect his precise and important understanding of academic freedom and freedom of speech. As Harvard proclaims in its “Free Speech Guidelines,” “Free speech is uniquely important to the University.”The strife is about the meanings of academic freedom and of free speech. Extending free speech protection to all speech uttered in universities (part of what Justice David Souter, ’61, LL.B. Post’s most complete statement about the relationship between free speech and academic freedom is Democracy, Expertise, and Academic Freedom.