Eulogy for a Dream
…And, of course, behind academic freedom is free speech, so we might even say, Sermo Liber Vita Ipsa (“Free speech is life itself”). Resources for Academic Freedom and Freedom of…
…And, of course, behind academic freedom is free speech, so we might even say, Sermo Liber Vita Ipsa (“Free speech is life itself”). Resources for Academic Freedom and Freedom of…
…speech organizations are sprouting like mushrooms after a rainstorm, providing a nexus for action. If your college or university doesn’t have a chapter of the Alumni Free Speech Alliance, consider…
…It’s a far cry from the cliché high school valedictorian speech, which thanks everyone imaginable for making the wondrous day possible. What makes oikophobia paradoxical is that those who are…
Editor’s Note: The following is a speech delivered by Professor Elizabeth Weiss of San Jose State University at a meeting of the California Association of Scholars on March 16, 2023….
…humanity of people,” she continued, “that one way to do that is with more speech and not less.” Steinbach is correct that more speech—i.e., diversity of thought on topics of…
…and organize concerts. There will also be a free speech dividend—since entertainment and public lectures are beyond the school’s administrative reach, there will be no need to worry about woke…
…the primacy of merit in STEM? Just as the Chicago principles are helping to restore academic free speech, the Goldwater and Manhattan institutes have provided a much-needed blueprint for reining…
…might not be welcome for the increasingly sensitive minorities. Thus its main goal is the suppression of free speech and opinion. It is thus quite in accord with the illiberalism…
The ability to express diverse viewpoints without reputational and professional consequences has been under threat at colleges and universities for many years now. Numerous surveys and reports reveal that students…
…shows in Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media, oppression never stops bad ideas—it just drives them underground and turns their proponents into martyrs. Instead of banishing segregationists,…
…the stage, screaming that the film was “racist” and holding signs proclaiming it “hate speech.” By doing so, they prevented the audience from watching it. To his credit, Dr. Craig…
…speech by canceling this engagement. This would be antithetical to our school’s principles of free speech, academic freedom, AND creating a culture of belonging. Moreover, I believe cancellation would not…
…conflicts with the realities of running an online community. Many forms of speech are protected by the First Amendment in the United States, including most types of pornography, “hate speech,”…
…for a more accommodating environment. Soon there is agitation for speech codes, trigger warnings, removing allegedly racist books from the library, or banishing offensive sports mascots. Today’s demands include draconian…
…allowed one group of Wax’s loudest critics—minority students—to decide what speech is acceptable and what speech may be suppressed in the name of DEI. But that is the wrong message…
…imperially minded administrators who push troubling identity politics at their institutions. Others have been standing up for academic freedom, open debate, and free speech in groups like Heterodox Academy and…
…to criticize administrators and speak to elected officials,” said Del Kolde, a senior attorney at the Institute for Free Speech. “The First Amendment protects such speech and, in a free…
…this letter further demanded the restriction of free speech and academic freedom to exclude opinions with which they disagree, because “when the University refuses to define limitations to academic freedom,…
…America’s constitutional order.” “By transmitting knowledge, protecting free speech, and fostering civil discussion, the Hamilton Center will equip students to think for themselves and contribute to the public interest.” Promoting…
…Ohio State’s DEI-themed faculty hiring boom started with its now-outgoing president, Kristina M. Johnson, who promised in her first “State of the University” speech to hire scores of new faculty…
…thread connecting these people is an unapologetic belief in America and its founding promises of equality, merit, free speech, and citizenship. To them, equal treatment of every individual, regardless of…
Nearly 60 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. King’s powerful plea for equal rights has resonated…
…Erin Miller. They’re part of a group called the Renegade Institute for Liberty, which is: Dedicated to the free speech, open inquiry, critical thinking to advance American ideals within the…
…suppression of free speech continues to plague American higher education. The 2022-2023 College Free Speech Rankings, released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), found that 63% of…
…that coercion is now required to suppress dissent. Violence—actual violence, not disfavored speech—is, of course, the only mechanism for dispute resolution when rational discussion and debate breaks down. The subjectivity…
In my sixth year as a professor—the same year that Barack Obama’s Department of Justice reshaped Title IX into a tool to police political speech on campus—a student filed a…
…once taught these things, the centrality of the family, patriotism, meritocracy, freedom and clarity of speech, and the rule of law. Most young parents do not realize that there is…
…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…
…the deployment of diversity, inclusion, and equity oaths to suppress speech, they should be careful about what they wish for. Corporate university administrators now support these scholar-activists, but it won’t…
…“My Compelled Speech is Your ‘Academic Freedom’?”] The AAUP avers (correctly) that a university should not control the relative number of Republicans and Democrats on its faculty. But the reason…