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Intellectual Treason at Harvard, Penn, and MIT
…not backing away from that. Free means free. From Nazis marching in Skokie to Proud Boys in Charlotte. All of that. But Free Speech—to be genuinely free—requires a rebuttal. It…
What Are Negative Rights?
…might be a very different country today. Most of us can list them—the right to free speech, the right to keep and bear arms, the right to a trial by…
Why Are We Surprised That Mobs of Hamas Supporters Disrupt Our Lives and Spread Hate?
…death. Pro-Hamas mobs chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine shall be free [of Jews],” and “globalize the intifada,” and although they may not be able to identify which…
College Presidents Are Oblivious to Their Campus Climate
…scared to speak, question, and express themselves freely. Using disparaging rhetoric, even violence, to prevent speech is now commonplace on campus, and thus, many students are turning inward, and genuine…
A Modern Day Thermopylae
…interactions with students, faculty, and staff. Failure to do so may limit promotions, future job opportunities, etc. Faculty now talk about the “weaponization” of concepts like free speech and academic…
Academic Freedom is Not an Academic License
Academic freedom is constantly referred to by faculty and administration. It is often used as a proxy for free speech, and a free speech absolutism where “anything goes.” It serves…
The Babylon Bee Comes to Harvard
…free speech. While he vehemently defended free speech in the public sphere, he argued that standards are different in private life or for private companies. For instance, last year, Dillon…
Defining the Boundaries of Free Speech: Threats, Libel, and Blackmail in Society
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of free speech. It is imperative for society and even more important on campus. After all, the latter is the place where ideas…
DEI-vestment: University of Florida sheds ‘inclusion’ for innovation
…its allies to the cause. Defenders of DEI argue that “free speech” is trampled if DEI is defunded. This is especially notable since one of the major activities of DEI…
The Takeover
…vanishingly rare event that universities attempt to cultivate an environment of academic freedom and free speech on campus, it will never fully apply to sponsored international students from countries with…
King to Gay: Universities Dismiss Black Plagiarism
…based on her views on anti-Semitism and free speech. A long-time advocate of “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” she saw nothing contrary to Harvard principles in calling for the death of…
Carole Hooven: Why I Left Harvard
…Today, Harvard’s commitment to free expression is anything but clear. Harvard came in dead last in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s free speech rankings, which detailed some of…
The Future of Twitter: Institutional Capture and Conservative Creativity
…platform won’t change that. ‘Original Twitter,’ on the other hand, genuinely practiced free speech; it was a place where all of those figures could be brutally mocked for their hypocrisies…
Harvard Shouldn’t Just Blame Students for Free Speech Woes
…and Free Expression Student Summit,” which was co-hosted by PEN America, a non-profit dedicated to free expression. “Our hope is that through participating in this event,” the announcement stated, “you…
After Claudine: How to Repair American Higher Education
…as newly awakened champions of free speech or academic freedom. Claudine Gay, Sally Kornbluth, and Elizabeth Magill, of course, got themselves in hot water by pretending that the issue at…
I Was Canceled
…fighting for academic freedom and free speech for student and faculty – showing you how common these cases really are—and was financially funded in full by the Academic Freedom Alliance….
Biden and Universities Launch Sneak Attack on Free Speech
…made it increasingly clear that they have an affinity for regulating student speech. Through various policies such as “free speech zones,” bias reporting systems, speech codes, and other restrictions, they…
Balancing Academic Independence: Beyond Congressional Oversight
…organizations like Princetonians for Free Speech, MIT Free Speech Alliance, and the umbrella group Alumni Free Speech Alliance may yet garner the attention of university leaders. The appropriate influence of…
Saving Free Speech
…MIT Students for Open Inquiry, “America’s newest college organization for free speech and academic freedom.” The Alumni Free Speech Alliance, a national network of pro-free-speech alumni organizations founded in October…
Who’s Going to Make Sure the Salt Isn’t Poison?
…debate in a healthy society and a beneficent leader’s reluctance to expose his subjects to too much free speech. He parroted the Catholic line as follows: “simple minds, having been…
Why Plagiarism Matters
…As Claudine likes to say, “It all depends on context.” Repeating other people’s words without attribution is at the heart of many liturgies. Your own free-form paraphrase of the Lord’s…
Kindness Repaid with Horror: Dylann Roof, Hamas, and Our Universities
…designated foreign terrorist organization, can move the SJP’s activities from protected free speech, into conduct that is beyond our First Amendment protections. A broad coalition—including Ari Berman, President of Yeshiva…
Invitation to a Fancy Dress Party
…days later amended her view, saying, “I don’t mind anonymous American people having free speech … What I don’t like is anonymous Russians and Chinese and Iranians having free speech.”…
Nazism, Anti-Semitism, and Today’s Islamo-Fascism at American Universities
…and its liberal tradition we cannot stand by and see the college used as a tool by political forces which deny the very existence of freedom of thought and speech…
Campus DEI Fuels Anti-Semitism and Reinforces Racial Stereotypes
…responsibly calibrated to turn back DEI’s worst excesses on Ohio’s public campuses. Prohibiting mandatory DEI training, compelled political speech, and the use of diversity screens in hiring and admissions decisions—alongside…
The Dead-End Gospel of Viewpoint Diversity
…you created in 2015-2016.” Although two out of the three university presidents who testified have since attempted to walk back their comments, free-speech advocates shouldn’t hold their breath. It’s as…
Philip Carl Salzman: Does Academic Freedom Protect Genocidal Anti-Semitism?
…enlightenment, sexual freedom, or political revolution. Academic freedom is restricted to the pursuit of academic goals. Other goals may be pursued under the aegis of free speech, a much more…
The Cost of Ignoring First Principles
…us to free speech, is a fundamental American principle. However, for generations, thoughtful people recognized that it applied to behavior consistent with laws governing criminal behavior. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes…
Curbing DEI in Ohio
…or training, although it does not abolish DEI offices. The bill also protects free speech and forbids indoctrination. Fellow NAS Ohioans Richard Vedder and Hal Arkes (along with myself), and…