Academic Activists Make a Published Paper Disappear
…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…
…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…
…is no objective truth – then there is no real learning. Abandoning truth creates confusion. Confusion leads to censorship. And censorship inevitably invites chaos on campuses, and elsewhere. This is…
…a right to academic freedom, which protected his free speech rights in this context. It is hypocritical of any left-wing journalist to justify censorship based on nasty emails in response…
…academic freedom: “Academic decisions must be left to the academy—not donors, legislators, or the general public.” And those (rightly) concerned about censorship from within academia should be equally concerned about…
…Oxford, and Yale, are still more case studies of coercion, more often than not led by students and ideologues posing as professors. In one act of censorship, a group of…
…of which does not appear to be a matter of excessive tuitions or government programs. The erosion of intellectual standards, the rise of shout-downs and student-led censorship, the disappearance of…
…in an atmosphere “free from hate. Related: How Soft Censorship Works at College But the charge leveled by the Freedom Center is arguably true. In 2014, both of the accused…
…those who often most eager to claim the protections offered by those ideals. Marcuse without Marcusians In speaking of shout-downs and other forms of mob censorship, we are used to…
…ideals. Remarkably, APSA and political science more generally survived the onslaught of illiberal radicalism, political correctness, and censorship of the 1960s, as John Gunnell of SUNY-Albany wrote in the association’s…
…there has been no feminist movement in those countries that practice state censorship? My experience in China seems to suggest that women are often victims of any kind of censorship….
…of leftist violence, bloated administration, left-leaning faculties, political correctness, censorship, and self-serving administration are all connected to one another as part of a general decline of higher education at the…
…Charles Murray has to be arrested if he comes onto our campus (that would be repression/censorship)”—the disruptor affirmed that if “we as a community are going to commit to ending…
…support for censorship, in that sense, on campuses? LAURA KIPNIS: I’m probably a frustrating interviewee, because I have a hard time generalizing. (laughs) I don’t know. Is there a general…
…that they weren’t supposed to say, but they often didn’t find out what it was until after they said it. John: You said that self-censorship is an easy thing to…
…least from my perspective, these high-sounding admonitions are misdirected and paradoxically give comfort to disruptors. Murray’s champions uniformly embrace the classic let- a-thousand-flowers-bloom, anti-censorship argument so vital to a democracy….
…rebuttal to Clarence Thomas’s ‘high-tech lynching” (a nontechnical non-lynching.). Economic violence. Jesse Jackson’s term for abrupt plant closings, home foreclosures and other economic dislocations. Economic censorship. Any boycott against any…
…is the search for truth, free speech is essential. If it’s social justice, then the rising campus yen for censorship and silencing one’s opponents can be rationalized. So the academy…
…that speech which targets individuals for their membership in a particular identity group is divisive and thereby subject to regulation. Related: How Soft Censorship Works at College What connects the…
…status on SJP, Fordham might run afoul of governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order directing state agencies not to do business with BDS-supporting organizations. Related: How Soft Censorship Works at College…
…and during the left’s current tolerance of censorship on campus and off. In fact, Hentoff was the moderator in 1992 the night that the first high-profile, high-publicity censorship by the…
…dubbed BIRT’s or even BERT’s or BHERT’s. (The ‘H’ stands for hate.) But, alas, a committee by any other name smells just as Orwellian. Related: How Soft Censorship Works at…
…expressed on the campus. Related: How Soft Censorship Works at College This kind of thing has been going on now on leading campuses for three or four decades. Should anyone…
…groups had not properly registered Mr. Shapiro as a speaker and that the university was concerned with security issues. Related: Feminist Censored from Censorship Panel Public universities have the same…
…censorship.” The Daily Caller reported that NYU insisted his sudden departure on paid leave was purely voluntary. “It was not demanded by the University and is unconnected to his social…
…toward a complete takeover of our campuses. A hyper “political correctness”—with trigger warnings, safe spaces, micro-aggressions, censorship, and sometimes even physical violence—has enveloped our universities. Leftist professors, administrators, and students…
…mojo that I stay off Facebook and Twitter, which could surely install an instinctive self-censorship out of fear of attack. Ten years ago, I gave the opening address of this…
…an unusually censorship-minded institution and that a short documentary, released in July, is making the rounds saying so. According to the Web site the College Fix, the documentary (see below),…
…find this an extraordinary rate of self-censorship. Instead, we should wonder about the 46 percent who didn’t think that their campus climate suppresses free speech precisely on the grounds of…
…So, on college campuses, the indictment became the conviction. We are in the heyday of censorship. The PC culture says: We are right; our opponents are wrong. Why should we…