Hate and Fear Are Now Major Motivators on Campus
…“If by self-censorship we mean that someone ever feels reluctant to speak, then self-censorship is an inevitable condition in any free society, and in any free university. The surveys revealing…
…“If by self-censorship we mean that someone ever feels reluctant to speak, then self-censorship is an inevitable condition in any free society, and in any free university. The surveys revealing…
…to remove propagandizing books. These latter have occasioned loud cries of censorship—ironically coming from the woke education elite that is most fervent itself in favor of censorship. Libraries and librarians…
…influence, does not walk the talk. Her intolerance then trickles downstream, creating a perpetual environment of censorship and self-censorship in higher education. Last Wednesday, the Foundation for Individual Rights and…
…mind was best illustrated for me in her 1997 essay with Janet McIntosh, “The New Creationism: Biology Under Attack,” published by The Nation. She writes about the hostility and self-censorship…
…Employees (“Stop W.O.K.E.”) Act, as unconstitutional and “racially motivated censorship.” In his expertly worded ruling, Judge Walker compared the District Court and himself to “the heroine in Stranger Things” who…
…the university on the veracity of its own (now falsified) claim that “any subject may be discussed and, in the case of controversial subjects, the institution avoids censorship and encourages…
…a tendency to demand ideological purity, which essentially forces conformity and self-censorship. One student protestor told Patel that the Diaspora Coalition did not fully represent her in both substance and…
…shutdowns and disincentives to work—are wrecking our economy. Perhaps more grievously, COVID authoritarianism and censorship have wrecked whatever trust was left in doctors and medical experts. It’s hard to imagine…
…faculty must cease to furnish students a highbrow spectacle of censorship, witch hunts, and kangaroo courts, and instead transform their campuses into bastions of free speech and due process. Editor’s…
…that imposes on certain perspectives the very censorship that it purports to overcome. As children, we learn that we should treat others as we wish to be treated, but this…
…attempts at censorship will not be tolerated. Perhaps the Hastings protestors should have been immediately escorted out of the event and arrested, as the 11 unruly protestors were at UC-Irvine…
This is not an article about censorship. It is an article about critical thinking—framed within legislated guardrails. Boundaries are important in elementary and secondary education, more so than in higher…
…public. Now, where is the American Library Association (ALA), an organization ostensibly opposed to any and all censorship of libraries? Will this venerable organization condemn Bard’s drift toward censorship? Alas,…
…other assorted flaws. Thus the cancellation of the piece was not based on censorship or ideology but on routine editorial decision-making. Patrice also dismisses critics of the ELJ (especially Professor…
…or clinical obligations. It’s obvious from this document that academic freedom exists to protect faculty from censorship, not COVID. So, in this case, the freedom afforded to the petitioning instructors…
…This censorship has led two of the other contributors to the Festschrift to withdraw their articles in protest, and two others to demand that their contributions be published with an…
…to vindicate them from charges of censorship and thought control. This is how totalitarian systems infect liberal polities. How could Mount Royal University claim in any good faith that it…
…especially those that usually lead to censorship or cancellation on “woke” campuses. This will be followed by master’s programs in Entrepreneurship and Leadership (fall 2022), Politics and Applied History (fall…
…MIT’s annual Carlson lecture. However, as there appears to be some question as to whether Prof. van der Hilst was motivated by a desire for academic censorship or simple cowardice,…
…of censorship. To try and justify this censorship as “reducing the spread of ‘fake news’ and ‘misinformation’”, platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google/Youtube and others have started relying on “independent…
…through state suppression of assaultive discourse.” [emphases added] It seemed absurd at the time: “assaultive discourse”—so “Speech = Violence”? Crazy, huh? State censorship was supported, tolerance was stigmatized as no…
…problem of incivility (and the related problems of self-censorship and deference to authority), and will do so without much reliance on rules, either top-down or bottom-up. Of course, the fact…
…conservatives are on the side of censorship. But once the censorship ball starts rolling, it will not stop, and other speakers—more likely, conservatives—will be deplatformed. At least for this one…
…criticize the university, and freedom from institutional censorship; it also guarantees that professors may exercise the rights granted them as citizens by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Given…
…taught how to engage in intellectual debate without fear of censorship or retaliation. Again and again, I have been told—explicitly or implicitly over the last six years—that no alternative solutions…
…cultivate the transfer of censorship power to large, privately run institutions. Limbaugh heroically inveighed against the abuses of the Fairness Doctrine. But the argument that privately owned businesses have no…
…inclusion” officers hired to police thought. Censorship has now become a “virtuous” act to ensure ideological purity. The First Amendment has become a dead letter as the Supreme Court passively…
…future when the “solutions” proposed for our current state of division include even more censorship and repression. Against the view of Weinstein (and myself) is the argument that so-called “hate…
…anyone who has followed the progress of cancel culture in the United States. Expressions of outrage, assertions of hurt feelings, name-calling, and demands for censorship are offered in place of…
On June 20, 2017, I vehemently opposed the censorship of my college president, Adam F. Falk, when I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in room 224 of the Dirksen…