[FRIAM] Academic Freedom

[Barry MacKichan]

You’ve raised a point I’ve wondered about. I could ask ChatGPT4, but 
I trust you more. 😉
Most of the emigrés I met in mathematics (and there were a lot when I 
was young) were Jewish. Was there a significant outflow of non-Jewish 
academics, scientists, writers, etc.? The exodus from the US is 
potentially greater since the number dependent on a paycheck exceeds the 
numbers of any one religion. I now live near several universities and I 
know graduate students moving to Canada; the faculty are watching their 
grants go and come back from court actions, but none of the younger ones 
seem to know where they will be in a few years.

— Barry

On 21 Apr 2025, at 14:22, Jochen Fromm wrote:

> Good point. Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Albert Einstein, Erich 
> Fromm and Hannah Arendt went to the US because they were Jewish. 
> Enrico Fermi emmigrated to the US because his wife was Jewish. Just 
> read his biography "Enrico Fermi: The Last Man Who Knew Everything" 
> which says he stayed in Italy even under Mussolini until Mussolini 
> started to implement Hitler's antisemitic laws. 
>
> Maybe one could say academic freedom is one of the highest freedoms 
> because it depends on freedom of speech *and* freedom of religion.
>
> -J.
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