The New Age of Orthodoxy Overtakes the Campus
…censorship of controversial ideas is never justified. Williams is not engaged in an idealization of the academic past. For her, there was no “Golden Age,” but she is alert to…
…censorship of controversial ideas is never justified. Williams is not engaged in an idealization of the academic past. For her, there was no “Golden Age,” but she is alert to…
…discourse will have noticed that getting angry, alleging bad faith, taking umbrage, and even demanding censorship, are standard. This is not new, though I don’t deny that our therapeutic response…
…reputation, one of the shakiest defenders of free speech at large on America’s censorship-minded campuses. In 2006, Holtschneoder was co-winner of the annual Sheldon given for worst college president of…
…a welcome indictment of liberal censorship and bias by two powerful campus donors. But that would be a mistake. Look more closely at what Bloomberg and Koch are saying. Whether…
…a genuine liberal arts education. The liberal arts are not readily compatible with censorship and mindless ideological persecution. It is impossible to teach, and to learn, in the liberal arts…
…have upset your feelings? I mean, that would be more authoritarian than just censorship. HARVEY MANSFIELD: Well, that’s happened to me. A Harvard student two years ago called for me…
…classes, making him feel like a colleague, even though we never met. More importantly, his impact upon my students can point to what a university should be. Campus Censorship Returns…
…not invite, but once invited by people with the right to choose, I wouldn”t censor. If you wonder what happens when censorship is encouraged, just look at the campuses today….
…faculty have gotten into serious trouble for saying something perceived as offensive. This creeping censorship was highlighted in the indispensable book by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, The…
…until that changes, I think we’re going to keep seeing these demands to never hear anything offensive. JOHN LEO Like micro-aggression, trigger warnings, safe spaces and different forms of censorship…
…students at Centerville High learn to engage with books, ideas, and people using the twin habits of defensive self-censorship and vindictive protectiveness. And then… they go off to college and…
…outright censorship or harassment. They knew that bad publicity and upright alumni and donors wouldn’t like it. But now that the safe-and-secure, racism-free, sexism-free, homophobia-free community-building vision has been adopted…
…up with degrees of freedom and autonomy virtually unknown in most times and places, agitate for restrictions on their own campuses, demand rules, regulations, and censorship in the name of…
…credit, openly opposed censorship, and cautioned that suppressing speech could eventually justify the silencing of the student protesters. At the same time, he neutralized this commitment by suggesting that Duke…
…tough? Come off it. It’s those trends, those longstanding trends of censorship and therapy, that created today’s creepy campus intolerance; it’s you who made these monsters.” — Brendan O’Neill, Spiked…
…on political or moral grounds — they simply say it jeopardizes their emotional well-being to have it aired and urge for its censorship to protect them from harm. This safety…
British feminist Julie Bindel was scheduled to speak at Manchester University on a panel discussing the subject “From Liberation to Censorship: Does Modern Feminism Have a Problem with Free Speech?’…
…Age of Campus Censorship In their October 21 letter, the left-wing groups essentially ask the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights to repeal the First Amendment as to internet speech…
…on Campus, Professor Downs is not confident about the state of academic freedom. “Things go in cycles,” he told me. “In the 1980s and 90s, censorship was driven by political…
…for these students. Top Reads from Minding the Campus Expel 10 If One or Two Are Guilty of Rape? The Fading of Liberal Education A New Age of Campus Censorship…
…“triggers” to accuse people of harassment for what used to be rational debate, is pretty clear. This is a stalking horse for censorship, not coincidentally of the same kind that…
…about radical Islam. Briefly Less Ideological After that spasm of lunacy, we were still dealing with preposterous cases of campus censorship, but many were less ideological and more of the…
…that include “speech codes,” “free speech zones,” censorship, investigations by campus “diversity and tolerance offices,” and denial of due process. They craft “anti-harassment policies” and “anti-violence policies” that are speech…
…do the right thing, and should award carrots of their own. Change the Culture FIRE and our allies have been fighting the culture of censorship on campus for decades—and we…
Civility is a watchword on campuses these days–partly because it is an admirable characteristic, partly because the word is always useful as an apparently benign cover for censorship. From my…
…about what to do about the situation that did not involve censorship. “Free speech doesn’t mean that students harmed by others have no recourse except for a thicker skin,” the…
…That has been the unanimous view of courts that have considered campus speech codes and other campus speech restrictions.” The campus, of course, has become one of the most censorship-prone…
…low-level administrators would support junior-varsity censorship (e.g., speech codes and free-speech zones) is not surprising in this day and age. Demands for ideological cleansing are common on today’s college campuses….
…censorship taught by their own administration, calling for the disinvitation of Bill Maher as the university’s December commencement speaker. Moreover, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that…
…an education in freedom, colleges and universities are teaching the values of self-censorship, and self-righteous abuse of power.” That was true in 1998, when their book was published and, alas,…