Salaita, whose faculty appointment was withdrawn after a series of controversial tweets criticizing Israel, spoke with Illinois Public Media's Jim Meadows, during a visit to Champaign-Urbana Tuesday. He was in town to talk about his new book, "Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom".

Ken Paulson speaks about issues ranging from the importance of the First Amendment and its future, to the Steven Salaita case, to the future of journalism in the digital age.