College professors tend to yell ?academic freedom? when critics question their dubious methods or sloppy scholarship. Are they using the term ?academic freedom? correctly? George Leef discusses the issue in the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio.

Terry Stoops will explain his latest research into the growth of public school jobs ? especially outside the classroom ? and we?ll hear from supporters of a plan to take the state?s election redistricting decisions out of the hands of lawmakers who stand to gain from the way districts are drawn.

The president of the Washington-based Tax Foundation, Scott Hodge, will explain how North Carolina and the United States are losing the tax competition, and Doug Lance, head of an alternative community penalty program in three Piedmont counties, will argue that some prison sentences end up wasting taxpayers? dollars.