UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PAYS PROFESSOR a six-figure settlement for free-speech violation. His opinions, in my opinion, are execrable, but you don’t fire people for that. This case was a little different because they didn’t exactly fire him, but rescinded an outstanding job offer. That turned out not to make a difference. And this is KC Johnson’s take, to which I linked earlier, which seems about right.

UPDATE: Much more from Jonathan Adler.