The President Has No Clothes
…promotion policies for faculty and administrators, and, perhaps most importantly, the chilling effect on free speech of the diversity, equity, and inclusion regime. So far as we can tell, no…
…promotion policies for faculty and administrators, and, perhaps most importantly, the chilling effect on free speech of the diversity, equity, and inclusion regime. So far as we can tell, no…
…she leaves out an important piece of the puzzle: autocratic legal processes’ role in rejecting the “rule of law.” This feature of relatively free societies creates predictability amid legitimate coercion,…
…Struggle for ‘Academic Freedom,’” she presents a lengthy diatribe attacking Horowitz, purporting to demonstrate “how the link between ‘academic freedom’ and ‘free speech’ becomes a rhetorical strategy by which we…
…debate and free speech, our first award winner justified herself thusly: “This idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white…
…doesn’t support academic freedom at all, but rather the freedom to compel and inculcate a specific set of cultural values and institutional norms that only diminish academic freedom. Image: Ernie…
…In the legal sector, this includes speeding up throughput and reducing bottlenecks in production and processing. [Related: “Be Quiet So You Can Hear the Free Speech at Yale”] The University…
…my institution, Wilfrid Laurier University, explain the problems found therein, and then offer some solutions. In 2018, Lindsay Shepherd’s free speech group invited Professor Frances Widdowson to speak about indigenization…
…Abbot explained that the Kalven Report was part of the “Chicago Trifecta.” Along with the Chicago Principles (promoting free speech) and the Shils Report (defending merit-based hiring), the Kalven Report…
…refreshing and invigorating to finally have a calm debate with someone holding opposing viewpoints. [Related: “Be Quiet So You Can Hear the Free Speech at Yale”] I started using Twitter…
…gained power, as they have in most of our colleges and universities, free speech becomes a liability. It challenges their ideas and agenda and must be suppressed. – Walter E….
…lawyer in a town will starve, but two can make a good living.” [Related: “Be Quiet So You Can Hear the Free Speech at Yale”] Many current and future law…
…Free Speech at Yale”] The University of Arkansas’s public-information officer works in University Relations as the assistant director of strategic communications. One of the responsibilities of the UNC-Chapel Hill senior…
…consent of administrators eager to pander to “anti-racism” activism so as to bolster MRU’s “You Belong Here” slogan. [Related: “Be Quiet So You Can Hear the Free Speech at Yale”]…
…Hear the Free Speech at Yale”] The virulent conservative attacks on the academic freedom conference confirmed the worst fears of the organizers, namely that academic freedom in the United States…
…to hire law clerks from Yale Law School due to the jurists’ shared concerns about the lack of free speech at Yale. On top of the fourteen instances documented by…
…will not last long. People who do not think that there is a “free speech crisis” in today’s universities are either not paying attention or are opportunistically benefiting from the…
…in Harvard and UNC and the Supreme Court’s arrival at a fulsome support of free speech. Yes, freedom of speech is in the Bill of Rights. However, the Supreme Court…
…tyranny but in turn behave tyrannically toward their own league of cities; they offer freedom to individuals but deny it to regions. Spartans repress their slaves while vowing to free…
…by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) reported that 83 percent engaged in self-censorship. Hyper-leftist Inside Higher Ed takes these results as evidence of free speech and diversity:…
…nonsense must confront mental illness. What’s the point of a rational defense of free speech if the listener is unable to grasp it? Indeed, many of today’s campuses—especially expensive, “artsy”…
…30,000–50,000 in the mid 18th century to 1,000 at the end of the 19th century due to “smallpox and the waves of Spanish-Mexican-American (settlements).” [Related: “In the Fight for Free…
…is subtle, ideological, and debilitating: “it reduces daily the value and frequency of the exercise of free choice; it restricts the activity of free will within a narrower range and…
…from 13 universities and colleges has formed the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA) to promote “free speech, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity.” Alumni from over 110 American higher education institutions…
Free speech and open expression—the very keystones of higher education—are under threat. This is an issue that now impacts all students, not just those on the Right. Earlier this week,…
…by a preferred pronoun was protected as his constitutional right to free speech in a Virginia court. Likewise, a college professor won a similar action against a transgendered student’s preferred…
…Clearly, this university will make speech free again, free of the restrictions, intimidations, and punishments, that destroy a community, but especially one devoted to truth, for “Truth is the child…
…out any speech. At Yale Law School, some 120 students disrupted a March event featuring Kristen Waggoner, lead counsel for the conservative Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), who appeared on a…
…1. Liberal Lens Critical Lens ● Espouses free speech subject to respect and civility ● Speech needs to be subjected to the rigor of micro-aggressions and intersectionality ● Traditional normative…
…group. This use of discipline (not to mention university resources) not only contravenes MRU’s Expression and Free Speech Policy, which states that “The University will not suppress presentations or debate…
…see “power imbalances,” “systemic racism” and “oppression” everywhere. “Antiracist” advocates openly seek to end representative government, the separation of powers, federalism, and free speech—among other civil liberties. Our enemies deserve…