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…
…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…
…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…
…for freedom of speech was slightly greater than support for hostile environment protection. It was also noteworthy that, just as the Faculty Manual claimed, those who supported freedom of speech…
…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…
…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…
…the gender of neglected individuals. The one thing that is never mentioned is the quality of the speech, the ideas, the factual basis, of the topic being discussed. The focus…
The antidote to bad ideas is good ideas, I’ve often said and sometimes written. I’ve railed against censorship and “cancellation” and defended very free, very unfettered speech. Even odious speech,…
…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…
…“The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!” Most Americans remember the stirring ending of Henry’s speech: “give me liberty,…
…have multiplied and spread in every sector of North American society: education, media, industry, government, military, and arts. The job of DEI commissars is to police policy, speech, and thought…
The past five months have shown the world just how toxic speech is on college campuses. The climate for open inquiry and dialogue is under attack nationwide, and students are…
…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…
…the public and gave Hancock’s faction proof that no good would come from efforts to reconcile with the Crown. Hancock had begun the month with a speech on the third…
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…
…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…
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…
…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…
…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…
…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…
…disabilities as hate speech or biases, also signals a counterproductive refusal to acknowledge said disabilities, and with the refusal, an unwillingness to treat the challenges medically and behaviorally. Other more…
…growing campus DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—bureaucracies strangle free speech. My ordeal has been used to illustrate the hypocrisy of the assertions by Harvard’s leaders that they honor the robust exchange…
…In truth, it’s from Tweedledee’s speech in Chapter IV. I think it’s strange that I’ve never met anyone who’s ever noticed. And I have another confession to make. It was…
…speech akin to that espoused by Musk. Others, perhaps resentful over years of online persecution, called for a role reversal—when a couple of mainstream media journalists were banned by the…
…resorted to attacks—putting racist signs on his door and creating anonymous instagram accounts to spew even more hate speech in his direction. People across the University expressed public outrage at…
…open borders, alternative energy, renaming buildings and tearing down statues, the 1619 Project, pronoun wars, Soros prosecutors, speech codes, dis-invitations, cancel culture, patriarchy, the fight against trans-exclusionary-radical-feminists, anti-colonialism, micro-aggression fragility,…
…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….
…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…
…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…
…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…
…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…