Cary Nelson makes some of the same points I have been making about academic freedom, including that using your expertise and professional judgment to make a syllabus is part of it, that contingent faculty do not enjoy such freedom, and that the replacement of regular with contingent faculty has the effect of eroding it. On academic freedom, research, and politics, here is Chomsky on audio.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
thanks for the Chomsky link..
I like Marc’s theme music!