The AAUP Discredits Itself
…two books associated with prominent AAUP members: Free Speech and Koch Money: Manufacturing a Campus Culture War and It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom….
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Try Not to Live By Lies
…perfect steward for immigration. Violent anti-Israel protests are exalted as the highest form of free speech. Speech itself is violence. Whites are oppressors. Abortion is reframed as family planning. “Diversity,…
‘Girls Don’t Want It’: Student Rips Sorority for Allowing Male Member
…also “forces ideology onto girls…[by making] everyone fearful to speak up,” Green said. Ultimately, it hinders “free speech and open discussion,” she told The Fix. “And, let’s be honest, while…
Biden Administration Prods Universities to Restrict Speech, In Investigation of Drexel University
…a hostile environment or substantially interferes with an individual’s work—the policy provides no shelter for core protected speech,” such as speech about “gender politics and sexual morality,” or “gender-motivated” speech…
Politicized Psychology Is Unraveling Minds: The Field Needs to Return to Objective, Evidence-Based Practices
…to free speech and freedom from compelled speech. What is going underreported in this incident are the psychological effects of public shaming and adult catastrophizing, likely to haunt these children…
DEI’s Inevitable Descent into Legal Trouble
…ruling, Title VI and Title VII. Develop and disseminate clear definitions of protected vs. unprotected speech. Commit to intellectual diversity and academic freedom. Avoid compelled political or ideological speech as…
Obama Promised Hope but Delivered Racial Animosity. Academia Follows Suit.
…required, and dissent needed to be ruthlessly suppressed. Freedom of speech, which had been lauded as a virtue while these radical ideas existed on the fringes of academia, now became…
Our Teachable Moment: Is Anyone Learning Anything?
…and above all, to engage in education and research. We can discuss and need to discuss the distinction between freedom of speech and academic freedom and to reflect seriously on…
The Red Scare Was No Moral Panic
…Ron Capshaw writes, the film’s “Trumbo-the- free– speech– avatar” is highly inconsistent with “Trumbo the actual person.” [Trumbo’s] daughter Nikola has said that being a communist in that period had…
Why Music Thrives in Our Universities
…students regarding choice and style, and it is strictly independent of their skill level. Institutional rules cannot control it: music is the ultimate free speech act. Even the “Chicago Principles”…
Biden Administration’s ‘Anti-Harassment’ Mandate to Colleges Tells Them to Violate the First Amendment
…guidelines. The Education Department is pressuring colleges to restrict speech that denounces pro-Palestine protesters or denigrates Jews or Palestinians—such as speech calling pro-Palestine protesters “terrorists”—under the rationale that such speech…
Can Harvard Faculty and Students Trust a Dean Who Wants to Punish Speech?
…if implemented, would severely weaken the already fragile state of academic freedom at Harvard. As dean, his significant power over the careers of many faculty members makes this particularly troubling….
Harvard’s ‘Abysmal’ Year Continues
Harvard’s year has been one for the history books. It ranked last in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s annual college free speech survey, earning its own category of…
Thucydides and Us
…even signals freedom and commercial exchange as the proper priorities for heads of state. He isn’t just history’s greatest historian; he’s history’s greatest political philosopher. As Leo Strauss insisted, Aristotle…
Identifying and Refuting Marxism on Campus
…Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto (p. 20). Neeland Media LLC. Kindle Edition. [ii] Ronald Reagan, “Evil Empire Speech.” March 8, 1983. https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/reagan-evil-empire-speech-text. [iii] Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto (p. 17)….
Can Harvard Win Back America’s Respect?
…Harvard graduate Senator John Fetterman, in a graduation speech at Yeshiva University, dramatically took off his Harvard hood (he has a degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government), saying it…
Send Your Nominations for the 2024 MTC Lysenko Award
…in disgust from his longstanding adjunct professor position at the school and to excoriate the KU Law administration for its shocking abandonment of free speech and inquiry principles. Past “dishonorable…
‘ChatGPT Is Really Helpful:’ The Martin Center Interviews Carolina’s AI Experts
…summarize it? Dayna Durbin: That’s kind of what we have been recommending in the library. We’re finding particularly that the free tools like the earlier versions of ChatGPT, because they…
Ole Miss investigates student for making monkey noises in political debate, despite looming free speech issue
…between being “free speech absolutists” in defense of their own side’s speech, to being avid censors of ugly speech by the other side. A classic example is the progressive media…
A Simple Test for Diversity and Inclusion
…entrusted to enforce them. University appeasers claim that their hands are tied by free speech protections. Yet, in other contexts, as Abigail Shrier noted, DEI advocates aggressively police speech to…
Progressive cities won’t enforce trespass laws against left-wing anti-Israel protesters, violating First Amendment rule against viewpoint discrimination
…speech.” But obviously, the city would not allow people to engage in “freedom of speech” on someone else’s property if they expressed a viewpoint offensive to the city, such as…
Top of Mind: Anti-Semitic Protesters
…April 25, 2024 Supporters of these protests or those who oppose using police to dismantle encampments—whether from the left or free speech absolutists—may accuse me of cherry-picking. But those proponents…
Time for Our Counterculture
Scarcely a month passes without encountering yet one more new faculty group dedicated to promoting intellectual diversity on campus, yet one more manifesto celebrating campus free speech, and yet one…
Identity Crisis at Middlebury
…as chairman of the committee that oversaw Vermont’s 1930 Eugenics Survey. Yet Mead is whitewashed while Moody is still vaunted. Middlebury College is now famous for stifling free speech and…
Trump, Harvard, and Godfather Politics
…free speech ranking. You would never know that reading the New York Times, whose motto is “all the news that’s fit to print,” has devolved into Vito Corleone’s “I’m not…
The Intensification of #MeToo Threatens Fairness and Academic Freedom
…to roll back free speech and due process rights in sexual misconduct cases on college campuses, all in the name of protecting women who can also be biological males. The…
The Right Must Avoid the Left’s Free Speech Pitfalls
…far, so good. He then directed all Texas colleges and universities to “review and update free speech policies to address the sharp rise in antisemitic speech and acts on university…
Progressive Overreach and the Procrustes Impulse
…Challenge: Detering the Social Justice Procrustes Mindset Our Constitution embraces free speech. Visions of social justice are welcome but once they are enabled with the power of the state and…
Biden Title IX changes threaten free speech, due process: legal experts
…Title IX changes threaten free speech and due process, according to several legal experts who spoke to The College Fix. The administration’s submitted updates to Title IX of the Education…
Echoes of Lost Conversations: A Review of ‘Bright College Years’
…could engage in lengthy and meaningful conversations without fear. As the narrator often remarks, “Back then, you could say that.” John Stuart Mill, a staunch advocate of free speech, would…