OPINION: Kennesaw State’s Costly Equity-Styled Salary Overhaul
…freedom of speech, academic freedom, and the removal of social justice ideology. I have been denied multiple times. In closing, I am by no means implying that economics professors were…
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Professor Alleges “Widespread” Discriminatory Hiring Coverup at University of Washington
…aware of “discriminatory hiring being widespread across the university.” Fine’s speech argued that the psychology department’s reranking was explicitly encouraged by one high-level administrator, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement…
Sarah Lawrence College’s Answer to Anti-Semitism? Submit a Form and Move On
…who are treated poorly on campus. This silence is quite loud despite our president’s declaration that “there is not, nor can there be, any place for antisemitism or hate speech…
Unpacking the Conspiracy of ‘Saving Democracy’
…democracy,” crack down on politically incorrect views via proliferating speech codes, and frames electoral competition in “us-versus-them,” zero-sum hyperboles. A Constitutional Republic vs. Impulsive Democracy In America, the law…
Law Schools Must Create a Culture That Promotes Viewpoint Diversity. Here’s How.
…2000, there have been 110 attempts to professionally sanction law professors for speech that is, or in public settings, would be protected by the First Amendment. Over half of the…
NAS and Heritage Foundation Join to Unveil DEI’s Influence on Higher Education
…are required in job interviews, promotions, or research grants, they can amount to unconstitutional compelled speech. Additionally, when campuses treat members of certain racial and ethnic groups differently in admissions,…
The Dangerous Evolution of Cancel Culture
…connection can view. While that’s bad enough, this tactic of directly messaging students is a chilling evolution of cancel culture that threatens speech, expression, learning, and open inquiry. The culture…
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….
When Women Ruled and Gentlemen Complied
…Dean Tirien Steinbach shut down Federal Judge Kyle Duncan’s speech because his ideas hurt people’s feelings. More recently, officials in the United Kingdom have indicated they’re prepared to ask officials…
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?
…occasions recently to talk to my students about freedom of speech and the First Amendment. These FAQs from FIRE provide an excellent point of departure, especially with their focus on…
The Red Scare Was No Moral Panic
…in what seems on the surface to be a conciliatory speech. There’s just one problem with all of this tear-jerking about “civil rights violations:” Dalton Trumbo was a Communist, and…
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…
Just Like MIT, Every University Should Reject Political ‘Diversity Statements’
…intentions, but the experiment failed. First, requiring DEI statements of job applicants, in practice, has routinely functioned as forced political speech. Not everyone who affirms the ideal of a racially…
Blame Woke Mind Virus, Not Coronavirus, for Young Americans’ Mental Health Crisis
…Nephew. Given the rise of campus safetyism, speech codes, cancel culture, and the underlying stronghold of liberal values, college students nowadays are rapidly developing immunity against inconvenient facts and controversial…
Can Harvard Faculty and Students Trust a Dean Who Wants to Punish Speech?
Harvard Dean of Social Science Lawrence Bobo set off a firestorm last week when he published an article suggesting faculty should be punished for publicly criticizing the university. His position,…
Harvard Dean Bobo’s Appeal to Institutional Loyalty Falls Short
Harvard Dean Lawrence Bobo writes in the Harvard Crimson that faculty speech should have limits. There are, he says, responsibilities as well as rights associated with academic freedom: As Harvard…
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
…Thucydides uses to contextualize Pericles’s funereal speech (2.47–54) suggest poetic license. Can writing history involve poetic license? It’s a composite. Thucydides’s point is that crisis sows fear—phobos—which drives social behavior….
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)….
Lysenko Award, Again!
…day to submit nominations for the Trofim Lysenko Award! Nominate someone in academia who has suppressed academic speech and inquiry for political reasons and include a brief explanation of why…
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…
Dear ‘Atlantic’: The Golden Age of American Jews Ends Only If We Let It
…first Jewish American to die fighting for America. President Washington’s 1790 speech to the congregation at the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island assured the congregants that the new country would…
Send Your Nominations for the 2024 MTC Lysenko Award
It’s time again for the Minding the Campus (MTC) Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech. Named after the notorious Stalinist pseudoscientist whose crackpot agronomist theories—and persecution of…