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…
…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…
…statements with which they disagree are violence directed against them. Except for incitement, actual threats, fighting words, and a few other examples of unprotected speech; language, and ideas carry no…
…Without those rules, the university is just babble pretending to be true speech. And that’s why Claudine Gay must go. Photo by lunamarina — Adobe Stock — Asset ID#: 81754676…
…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…
…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.”…
…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…
…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…
…Jonathan Haidt—the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at NYU’s Stern School of Business—saw that the American university was also in need of saving. He worried that draconian speech restrictions,…
…to protect academic freedom and that they must not discourage speech and other forms of expression, such as vandalism, trespass, and intimidation, even when regarded as abhorrent by some. But…
…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…
…the Hindu goddess of speech; while the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands attribute the giving of language to the god Pūluga. Scientific theories of the origins of language are…
…AI can supersede these silos. All communication within each and every discipline—whether mathematical symbols, human language, research reports, publications, lectures, designs, plans, robotics, image generation, speech recognition, computer vision, and…
…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…
…most people think and behave, I wager that if everyone were a citizen of the United States, then one way or another my property, guns, speech, happiness, and practically everything…
…are generally preoccupied philosophically with free speech, and have enjoined students to couple this concept with “truth” and “misinformation.” But why is speech their object? Why not the effects of…
…the Department of Commerce saw that his speech focused on the false narrative of the enslavement of American Indians and broken promises, coupled with criticism of historical stereotypes of Indians…
…again the public was left with the difficult to erase impression that the law students involved had little or no respect for the law, free speech, or civil disagreement, and…
…a speech citing the creator God mentioned in the Declaration of Independence. The speech drew criticism from columnists in the Washington Post, Time, PBS, and the New York Times, among…
…that speech is violence, and that speech that makes one feel unsafe can be prohibited. Everyone in Israel knows what real violence is. No less welcome would be an awareness…
…administrators take a stand for free speech. They should be consistent, though, rather than arriving at the opinion that expressive liberty on campuses is important only when students demonstrate to…
…chapters sues to maintain campus recognition, I could see a Florida court going either way on the claim of free speech versus the explicit and material support of terrorism, but…
…my more than 7,000 volunteer hours and over seven million dollars in donations—NU has not apologized, has not rescinded my cancellation, and (I presume) continues to trample the free speech…
…come as a surprise to MTC readers that the health of free speech in the academy remains precarious. Lukianoff repeated what he has said before: that the free speech climate…
…student outcomes.” Several compelling cases can be made to support the rising array of legal challenges against DEI. The Case for Free Speech According to Reedly College professor Bill Blanken,…
…disease infecting the heart of the United States. A willingness to violate freedom of speech in the world’s most powerful nation is more worrisome than weak property rights in Latin…
School districts have begun to invite motivational speakers for their convocation ceremonies at the beginning of the school year. In the past, these speeches were given by actual educators, but…
…an astounding speech: it encapsulates the tension between the people and the oligarchs, it centers on the problem of social mobility, and it signals three types of fear that reach…
…“anti-racism” in the classroom. That lawsuit has been filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, a national organization that defends free speech and academic freedom. Wellesley Public Schools,…
…bad reworking of a memorable Winston Churchill speech about Russia (which still seems very relevant). Or, to pervert another Churchillian phrase: an American university presidency is the best collegiate job…
…Shrier, in a recent speech at Hillsdale College, reported the following statistics: • In 2007, there was only one gender-focused clinic in America. • In 2018, there were approximately 300…