Few at Columbia University would object if you called them the best and the brightest, yet they are no more incandescent than the rest of the public when it comes to enumerating their first amendment freedoms.
The good news is that here are still courses at Columbia that allow for genuine academic inquiry. The bad news is that it is too easy to find the other type.
The type of people who have been trying to gag global warming skeptics, no matter their scholarly credentials, are now complaining that they themselves cannot be heard.