Campus Shout-Downs Must Be Met with Stern Discipline
…were assaulted by protestors at Middlebury College in 2017. The reactions to these speakers are antithetical to the very nature of academia, which should provide a forum for free and…
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Elite Schools are Leading the Illiberal Charge
…silencing dissent compared to their male counterparts. This gender gap is more pronounced at elite schools—like Yale, Stanford, Oberlin, and Middlebury—which place their many graduates, who hold illiberal views about…
Dear Republican Students: Violence Has No Place in Politics
…even violence, as has been the case at Middlebury College. However, the American way of life is not preserved or enhanced by acts of violence toward political opponents. Republican students…
Not All College Students Are OK with Cancel Culture
In the past decade, schools ranging from Yale University, to Middlebury College, to my own Sarah Lawrence College, have made national news over how they have handled issues of free…
Colleges Need A Reality Check On Cancel Culture
…at places like Yale, Sarah Lawrence, and Middlebury. Nonetheless, students of all ideological backgrounds report that they regularly self-censor and limit what they say due to a fear of reputational…
A “Reverse Canceling” and its Critics
…Stanford, Berkeley, Middlebury and others, the luster of these institutions — rub off on them…. The debate over free speech for them is merely a pretext to gain publicity for…
They Must Fear Us: A Modest Proposal
…Middlebury College, his car was met by protestors who jumped on it, pounded it, and tried to prevent it from leaving campus. And it goes without saying that black protests,…
‘Woke’ Journalists Undermine America’s Newsrooms
…stumped the staff of the Middlebury Campus after protesters silenced conservative social thinker Charles Murray and injured the professor who’d invited him. The prospect of taking a stand on the…
‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values
…Evergreen State College, and of Allison Stanger at Middlebury College, among others. The goal of the ordinary classroom today is to get ignorant students babbling about whatever idle thoughts pass…
Whitewashing the Harm Colleges Inflict on the Nation
…having been at the center of a mob action at Middlebury College because he “advanced ideas about race that students and faculty members found offensive.” Put aside the fact that…
Word by Word, SJW’s Are Changing America
…one Middlebury student put it, we are “students who have had to deal with educational violence oftentimes perpetuated by white male faculty.” The last example is “safe,” a word that…
How Nine Universities Pander to Campus Radicals
…colleges think this is actually a good idea. Will Williams College capitulate? Middlebury College President Laurie Patton at Middlebury College canceled a scheduled speech by a Polish statesman, Ryszard Legutko,…
Why Don’t More College Leaders Back Free Speech?
…who cave into the demands of the speech suppressors. Consider the administration of Middlebury College. Middlebury was the site of the infamous riot to prevent Charles Murray from speaking in…
Heather Mac Donald: In the Crosshairs of a Progressive Campaign
…this way, we know that the description doesn’t fit. Of course, Murray and Mac Donald were frightened when mobs threatened them at Middlebury and Claremont, respectively, but they would have…
Academic Activists Make a Published Paper Disappear
…principle,” she told Sergei in an email, “I am happy to stir up controversy and few topics generate more than this one. After the Middlebury fracas, in which none of…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
…that run counter to its preferred narratives, and to punish those who disobey. Shout downs are a blend of forestalling and punishing. The tactics used against Charles Murray at Middlebury…
Princeton Takes a Stand for Free Speech on Campus
…disgraceful treatment of Charles Murray at Middlebury College in the spring of 2017 where a mob of student protesters not only made it impossible for Murray to deliver his prepared…
Evergreen College Gets an ‘F’ In Lessons Learned
…The rebellion collapsed. Contrast Frick’s courage with the conventional tame responses by American college presidents when radical students tell them what to do. During the melee at Middlebury, president Laurie…
Another Incoherent Protest This Time by Law Students
…effort to restore order. Much the same happened, of course, at Middlebury College in March 2017, when President Laurie Patton, couldn’t find any reason to restore order at the near-riot…
Sexual Abuse Gets a Free Pass on Campus
…teaching and administrative positions in higher education, working with students at New York University, Georgetown, George Mason University, The New School, Middlebury College, Lafayette College, and most recently at Rutgers…
Did the Right ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech?
…have kept Milo Yiannopoulous from speaking at Berkeley, Charles Murray from speaking at Middlebury, Heather Mac Donald at Claremont McKenna—and just this last October, Black Lives Matter prevented Claire Guthrie…
U. of Wisconsin Will Suspend or Expel Campus Disrupters
…March at Middlebury—a disruption heard around the academic world, though it was hardly the only such noise. Related: Middlebury Sounds an Alarm At Middlebury, where protestors injured a liberal faculty…
The Long Plight of the Right on Campus
…academic community. For example, Charles Murray’s, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life(1994) has provoked outrage on campuses. Riots broke out at Middlebury College earlier this year,…
The Article that Made 16,000 Ideologues Go Wild
…Mizzou, Yale, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, and Evergreen stand out in the public eye as the exemplars of such nonfeasance on the part of college presidents. The whip of public scorn…
Charlottesville—One Poison, Two Bottles
…Mizzou, Yale, Berkeley, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, and Evergreen, to mention only the most prominent examples. Which brings me back to the University of Virginia, which was a pioneer of sorts…
Colleges Are Drawing the Contempt They So Richly Deserve
…course, the real credit for this turnaround goes to those students at Middlebury and their counterparts at dozens of other colleges and universities. It goes to Melissa Click, the professor…
An Anti-Koch Rampage at Wake Forest
…become the kinds of rioters we’ve seen at Middlebury and Berkeley and Yale and Evergreen. That’s bad, but limited. Or, to turn this around, it should worry all the leftist…
How Schools Create Social Justice Warriors
…aesthetic distance. This isn’t reading. It’s catechism, indoctrination, proselytizing. We see here the beginnings of an intolerance that results in the Middlebury-Murray episode. The only thing more irritating than the…
When Universities Go Out of Control
…Middlebury, Yale and elsewhere would be to expel the students involved: Not to warn them, not to counsel them, not to suspend them, but to expel them. In no other…
Four Lessons for Professors from Recent Campus Tumult
…at Middlebury and Claremont McKenna did not). 4) If a mob comes for you, the great majority of its members will be non-violent. However, given the new standard operating procedure…