The Growing Threat of Repressive Social Justice
…the people of Ontario to protect free speech on campuses.” The Government of Ontario, according to the Government guidelines, requires universities to provide a definition of free speech based on…
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DeVos Urges Campuses to Promote Free Speech
…procedures when adjudicating sexual misconduct claims. Today, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos—quite appropriately—took a different approach to the issue of free speech on campus. Rejecting the idea of a “speech police”…
How a Social Justice Mob Fired a Tenured Professor
…speech.’” That sentence deserves some prize in triple-speak obfuscation. We can take the point that Mehta’s free speech violates the “academic freedom” of people who disagree with him. Coming, Coming…
What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University
…“hate speech.”) Academic committees now twist themselves into pretzels trying to explain that “diversity is excellence.” Members of Oppressor Categories Must Be Suppressed Of course, the requirement of representation according…
How #MeToo Became Weaponized at NYU
…to fight back against allegations. But these are hardly the sole costs universities should be worried about. Harassment policies and speech codes these days affect every aspect of campus life,…
Identifying the Real Haters on Campus
…weren’t free in Bolshevik Russia to have freedom of religion, press, assembly, speech or property, but if you wanted a divorce or an abortion, you were the freest person on…
Liberal Journos Fume at Decision to Protect Academic Freedom
…after Professor John McAdams posted his blog post. But you don’t lose your right to free speech because other people are nasty. Free speech gives you the right to criticize…
The Liberal-Conservative Dance on Campus Free Speech
…“free-speech,” legislation, requiring the University of Nebraska to adopt a campus free-speech policy. That policy would protect the ability of students and faculty to “assemble and engage in a spontaneous…
A Tide Flowing Toward Free Speech on Campus
…speech” and violated the First Amendment right to free speech. The Supreme Court’s decision in the Janus case followed similar logic. Workers were being forced, against their will, to pay…
Professor John McAdams ‘1’. . . Marquette University ‘0’
…University violated professor John McAdams’s free-speech rights and its own contractual obligations when it suspended him for writing a blog post in 2014. Because of his blog post, McAdams was…
Princeton Takes a Stand for Free Speech on Campus
…it is inevitable that good speech will be suppressed along with the bad, that the tools forged to punish worthless speech will be used to silence valuable speech as well.”…
Are Alumni Pulling the Policy Strings in Academia?
In an attempt to pressure and embarrass Duke University’s President Vincent Price, an undergraduate student group, known as the “People’s State of the University,” interrupted the President’s speech during an…
It’s Time to Fight for Western Civilization
…free speech and conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of movement, freedom of choice in marriage, and the many other basic rights set out by the United Nations in the Universal…
Evergreen College Gets an ‘F’ In Lessons Learned
…the price for its folly, including president George Bridges’ unwillingness to handle increasingly aggressive protests. Bridges might have simply delivered a variation on Ford Frick’s speech: “No one will be…
Why Pomona Students Are Afraid to Say What They Think
…speech restrictions. One rising sophomore told the Independent on the condition of anonymity that “[m]ore than being afraid of saying things that others could find offensive, I think a lot…
Free Speech Discourse on the Dark Web
…that free speech is under siege, identity politics is a toxic ideology and many other forbidden things you can’t say at a cocktail parties in NY or LA without being…
Why Are So Many Campus Feminists Anti-Male?
…champions of free speech on campus, have become the champions of censored speech. How the champions of female progress are now the champions of mixed signals: “I am woman, I…
Stung by Charlottesville Riot, UVA Limits Free Speech
…as an ‘action,’ not speech, and it deems only ‘appropriate’ speech and speech that does not challenge ‘diversity’ worthy of protection.” A statement from UVA Provost Tom Katsouleas was even…
Those Darling Duke Student Protesters
…a speech to the Academic Council on March 22, 2018, he had noted proudly that with some recent new appointments, “eight of our ten Deans will be women. We truly…
A New Tactic to Undermine Free Speech?
“The anarchic left” may be adopting a new tactic to stifle free speech on campus: rather than direct shout-downs of speakers they oppose, thus risking arrest and punishment, they may…
Writing for Minding the Campus
…a variety of professors, academics, and journalists. We also invite students who can report and verify first-hand experiences regarding curriculum, protests, free speech, and other controversies. Finally, thank you for…
A Conservative Argues Some ‘Free Speech’ Is Assault
…the doctrine of free speech to another level by drawing on an older case and declaring that the decision “offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned…
12 Reasons I Like Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules
…strong, be precise in our speech (Rule 10) and say what we really think. 12. He tells us to grow up, to replace empty ideology with responsibility. He advises us…
The Battle Over Pronouns Coming to a College Near You
…speech, as law professor Bruce Pardy explains. The Ontario Human Rights Commission, for example, declared that “refusing to refer to a trans person by their chosen name and a personal…
No Free Speech on Four Canadian Campuses
Students at Canadian campuses have refused to allow three right-to-life clubs and one male-awareness group on the grounds that they don’t like what the clubs’ missions. The student union at…
Exclusive: New Harvard Prez Nearly Won “Sheldon” Award
…speech by eliminating punishment for the student journalists and praised free expression but refused to overrule the guilty verdict, leading the Sheldon committee to conclude that Bacow’s commitment to free…
The College Endowment Tax: A Good Idea, Sort of…
…and rising campus disrespect for free speech and intellectual diversity. Related: The Case for Taxing Endowments The precedent to exempt colleges from taxation emerged during the colonial era when newly…
Jordan Peterson and the Lobsters
…don’t Rule 10 Be precise in your speech Rule 11 Do not bother children when they are skateboarding. Rule 12 Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street…
Did the Right ‘Weaponize’ Free Speech?
…and free speech are not the same things. Academic freedom is a self-created doctrine within higher education. What we usually mean by “free speech” are the expressive rights guaranteed by…
‘We Made This (Harassment) Law Up From the Beginning and Now We’ve Won’
…everyday interactions are not helpful, any more than are restrictions on speech because someone feels “offended” or “uncomfortable.” Sexual extortion, sexual assault, and rape,” are and should be illegal. Vulgar…