An Open Letter to Students
…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…
…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…
…because of the protections for “concerted activity” from the National Labor Relations Board, direct censorship of dissident faculty opinions typically does not (yet) occur. Instead, the academic Left, which includes…
…entail censorship; we can leave that self-defeating practice to the radical left. We do not seek to prohibit ideas but to study them and engage with their advocates. Make no…
…avoid being sued for racial or sexual harassment. So some censorship is already occurring, due to fear of harassment lawsuits. (If a private employer voluntarily restricts its employees’ speech, that…
…should not be afraid, based on the evidence they have accumulated, to let the world know, because the taxpaying public is not fond of radical censorship. Image: wal_172619, Public Domain…
…right that speech policing and self-censorship is no big deal, few could deny that polarization, mistrust, minority achievement gaps, crime, and homelessness are “real” problems. What they fail to realize,…
…economics, race and sex preferences in hiring, statistical malpractice by scientists, and censorship within the scientific community. The BGSA petition focuses primarily on items having to do with overpopulation and…
…Bernardino Valley College (1996)). By classifying more speech as harassment, the BE HEARD Act will lead to censorship. Its many provisions hostile to employers will harm the business climate and…
…universities and academic publishers alike are engaged in preemptive and post-publication censorship of any research that contravenes Woke dogma—neo-Lysenkoism throughout what was once the Free West. Topics presumptively subject to…
…the researchers asked about the source of their self-censorship, conservatives didn’t fault their professors all that much. As the researchers put it in a summary of the project, We asked…
…left-wing censorship and violence, even when fellow journalists get attacked. They equate conservatives’ speech with violence and rationalize leftists’ actual violence as . . . speech. It’s a strange new…
…to a demand for more favorable coverage or outright censorship. Demands for “empathic” reporting often seem like arguments against exposing members of vulnerable groups to normal and fair reporting methods….
…against the progressive waves on our campuses. Self-censorship and being afraid to ask questions is the antithesis of higher education’s very mission and simply has to stop; being aware of…
The progressivist insistence on feeling safe and included, along with accompanying acts of censorship and personnel complaint, has proven so successful in recent years that one can hardly blame conservative…
…Stanford’s free speech problem is intimidation-produced silence. “A central impediment with respect to free speech in our classrooms is self-censorship,” she writes. “Many students are afraid to voice opinions that…
…with is “hate speech”; the freedom to hear different points of view rather than suffer mob censorship; the right to equal access to admissions, funding, jobs, and benefits rather than…
Last week Google told the Claremont Institute that the Institute’s advertisements for its annual conference were banned. This act of censorship by the internet giant followed Facebook’s announcement that it…
…never punished or even mildly curtailed. My conclusion is simple: We are living through an odd moment, characterized on the one hand by rampant censorship and self-censorship, and on the…
…op-ed in Dutch media HLN denying that those who participated were anti-Semites, and defended the “freedom from censorship” for the parade organizers. The parade has a history of escalating anti-Semitism….
…for example, the impact of peer pressure on transgenderism, “social justice” advocates go apoplectic, and demand censorship. Wave four feminism’s desperate plea for female solidarity on the basis of a…
…genetic link between mathematical ability and sex. Given the huge number of taboo research ideas that “die” prematurely via self-censorship, this quandary is unsolvable. Imagine the bureaucratic mess if professors…
…the Office of Public Policy Events for exactly the reason noted above. It will take the delicate and sometimes embarrassing issue of campus censorship out of their hands. Our sense…
…to savage you if you use the wrong word.” Another student confided that “sooner or later someone will object that I offended them.” Self-Censorship Is Safer It seems that a…
…admits, like well qualified racial rejections, are both collateral damage — trivial compared to the abstract, statistical equality achieved. {Campus Censorship Is Leaching Into Business and the Arts} Progressives take…
In a pointless act of censorship, CNN removed the episodes of the TV show “Parts Unknown” that featured actress Asia Argento. It did so because it learned that she had…
…demands from the radical academic Left to suppress a controversial idea. Who will be the next, and for what perceived transgression? If bullying and censorship are now to be re-described…
…or outright expulsion, firing even of tenured professors. Don’t take my word on this. Here are recent cases of censorship and attacks on views not entirely in accord with “social…