At Some Colleges, It’s OK to Be White Again
…speech about a housing project for disabled people that allegedly exhibited prejudice. (See White v. Lee, 227 F.3d 1214 (9th Cir. 2000)). The court ruled that even if their speech…
…speech about a housing project for disabled people that allegedly exhibited prejudice. (See White v. Lee, 227 F.3d 1214 (9th Cir. 2000)). The court ruled that even if their speech…
…in the increased control of thought and speech, for example, in universities’ “diversity and inclusion” apparatus, including “bias detection” committees and re-education committees, a la Communist China. The great success…
…that we work to “foster honest inquiry, free speech, and open discourse.” [Bloomberg Warns Colleges About Limiting Free Speech] This course was recently featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education…
…which has also supported lawsuits eliminating so-called free-speech zones on campuses, agreed with Speech First that the university’s rules likely did inhibit free speech. Speech First also contended in the…
…other schools in signing onto the Chicago statement, published by the Committee of Freedom of Expression at the University of Chicago. The statement calls for free speech to be central…
…and exclusion of others? How uninspiring that would be, and how smug, too (as in that sneering insertion “so-called”). This idiom of identities, exclusion, and marginalization isn’t just hack speech….
…Markus, the main problem of free speech at Stanford seems to be too much speech, which results in too little “inclusion.” “We have two ears and one mouth,” she observes;…
…It is now routine on some campuses to treat shout-downs as exercises in “free speech.” Moreover, “free speech” was almost the whole of Oberlin’s defense when it emerged that Oberlin…
Are Oberlin College officials serious when they say they were defending students’ free speech? That remains the college’s defense even after a jury found the college guilty of libel and…
…intangible characteristics, like student body diversity that are central to its identity and educational mission.” Because universities protect the bedrock “freedoms of speech and thought,” courts have long refrained from…
…only covered the affair after the verdict came down. The Times article, written by Mihir Zaveri and Emily Rueb, framed the verdict as an assault on student free speech, anchored…
…America. At one time, professors knew that arguments must be met with counter-arguments, but today they’re happy to attack with falsehoods, smears, and name-calling. Free speech and academic freedom are…
I keep being invited to talk about free speech on college campuses and every time I’m invited I make the same point: that this isn’t about free speech and this…
…day. Since then, he has been frequently invited to talk about free speech on college campuses. But he notes that the real crisis in education isn’t about free speech. Rather,…
…not agree are expressed. Thus “safe spaces” must be provided so that their identity and ideological sensibilities do not suffer. This is the foundation of the war against free speech…
…were engaged in lawful exercises of free speech was itself alarming. Google’s assault on the Claremont Institute was something more than alarming. It suggests that Google is ready and willing…
Which is it? Do universities these days want to be zones where no one will ever get offended, or do they want to promote free speech and academic freedom with…
…at Rutgers and beyond about whether Livingston’s words were racism or free speech was not very enlightening, in part because they were both free speech and racism. From his comments,…
…Powerline has kept up a close watch—see especially “The College Apocalypse, Continued.” Minding the Campus keeps the spotlight on key stories. Campus Reform tracks the efforts to suppress conservative speech…
You might think that higher education leaders, who have almost all been steeped in the academic traditions of the free exchange of ideas, would uniformly stand up for free speech….
…training, courts might view it as a First Amendment violation. Wasting someone’s time in retaliation for their speech can violate the First Amendment, as a federal appeals court ruled in…
…colleagues essentially abandoned me and any defense of free speech; they wanted my views to disappear. The College president seemed taken aback despite my known work on viewpoint diversity, and…
…my right to free speech and academic freedom and the College’s students are understandably afraid to speak when the school threw speech protections under the bus, I hope my narrative…
…upon them. Advocates of free speech are called “alt-right” and “fascists,” and university students have claimed the right to shut down speakers to deviate from “social justice” ideology through disruption…
President Trump recently announced that he would issue an executive order permitting federal research money to be withheld from universities that violated free speech. This may appear as welcome news…
…to contest the many government regulations that are incompatible with free speech and academic quality.” The university should lobby strongly to have any remaining leftist regulations overridden by legislation or…
…Linfield College in Oregon, is the author of a book on postcolonialism and the editor of a forthcoming volume on free speech and academic freedom. Her topic is, precisely, cuts…
…(especially academic freedom and free speech), suggesting a need for more circumscribed definitions of harassment and Title IX coverage. The last few years on most campuses have been characterized more…
…Still, fierce conflicts occurred between different kinds of feminists in the early years: anti-pornography vs. free speech, pro-sex vs. anti-sex, and so on, but rarely was there a direct challenge…
…I-am-not-a-conservative-but positioning. Lukianoff is best known as a scourge of campus speech codes and foe of university bureaucrats who suppress the First Amendment rights of students. He does this in…