censuring of public discourse

In January 2015, David Ransel, an Indiana University professor and former editor of the American Historical Review, wrote a letter to the association, saying that its handling of the matter "reeks of a censuring of public discourse and should be regarded by all decent people as a profound embarrassment to our association." It was signed by more than 60 scholars. A few months later, the group finally approved the Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Research Fellowship Program, which is still in existence. - Is This Professor ‘Putin’s American Apologist’?

добавлю от себя: вызывает уважение David Ransel. не потому ли он former editor