Donald A. Downs

Donald A. Downs, winner of the 2013 Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award, is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison and Faculty Advisor to the Institute for Humane Studies’ Free Speech and Open Inquiry Project.

November 1, 2017

U. of Wisconsin Will Suspend or Expel Campus Disrupters
February 22, 2016

What Scalia Did for Undergrads
March 4, 2015

Will the GOP Cut University Budgets?
January 7, 2015

Madison’s Anti-Bullying Policy: Not a Civility Code
September 11, 2014

Donna Shalala: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
May 15, 2013

A Misguided Feminist Agenda Curbs Free Speech
March 28, 2013

Overcoming Shalala and the Speech-Code Movement
November 2, 2012

FIRE Singes the Censors
October 4, 2012

Want to Hear Obama? Just Say You Support Him
May 25, 2012

Campus and Armed Forces–Too Far Apart
September 23, 2011

Protest Versus Disruption at the University of Wisconsin
July 26, 2011

Military History and ‘The Revolt Against Elitism’
March 2, 2011

Signs of Campus Dissent in Madison
February 15, 2011

The New Yorker Takes on the US News College Rankings
November 9, 2010

Social Justice Art and Liberal Democracy
September 10, 2010

A New Law Student Protest: ‘Where’s My Job?’
July 8, 2010

What Happened at Berkeley in November
May 16, 2010

When the Administration Takes Over the Departments
March 25, 2010

Hate and Free Speech at Wisconsin
January 19, 2010

What Is The AAUP Up To?
October 13, 2009

The Problem With Student Engagement
July 22, 2009

Card Check Comes To Campus
April 20, 2009

Cornell ’69 And What It Did
February 5, 2009

Universities, Individualism, and David Brooks
December 5, 2008

The Next Bubble?
October 9, 2008

Due Process Fades In Wisconsin
October 3, 2008

The Battle Over Student Fees
May 2, 2008

Columbia’s 68 Celebration: Only Radicals Need Apply
March 25, 2008

When Donors Pick The Courses
February 14, 2008

Beware The Second Transcript