A Plan to Restore Civics in Virginia
Editor’s Note: The following is the prepared text of a speech delivered by NAS Director of Research David Randall to the School Board Member Alliance of Virginia on November 14….
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How Elon University Found Calm in a Year of Campus Chaos
…that prized discourse over denunciation. The university also made a crucial definitional choice. It adopted the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism—a narrower, speech-protective standard—rather than the more expansive IHRA definition that…
Without Dissent, Knowledge Can’t Evolve
…advocates often claim that it does. [RELATED: Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent] Natural Selection The struggle for academic truth resembles natural selection in biology….
Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble
…academic freedom by the government in the history of American higher education,” a massive “onslaught designed to micromanage all colleges, public and private, and to suppress speech using the threat…
He Watched Friends ‘Become Radicalized’: Students on Rising Support for Political Violence
…free speech champion Charlie Kirk, college students have increasingly seen free speech as an enemy of safety and security. The free speech group Freedom of Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)…
Harvard’s Got an Ethics Problem
…federal Judge Kyle Duncan during an invited talk, while Dean Tirien Steinbach questioned whether the event was “worth the squeeze” rather than enforcing free-speech policies. At Columbia, a large number…
The Case for a Creator, Backed by Science
…the Big Bang.” The thermal map of the universe, first published in 1992 by George Smoot, won him the Nobel Prize in 2006. “[During] his reception speech, directed at his…
What Really Happened at Texas State’s Charlie Kirk Memorial
…I expected a solemn day of prayer, reflection, and conversation. Instead, more than a hundred people crowded the free speech area, the Stallions, yelling and screaming at our members and…
A Student’s Short Take on DEI: It’s Undermining Education and Intellectual Growth
…through reasoned argument, discussions often devolve into emotional reactions rather than logical engagement. This reliance on emotion over reason also chills free speech. I have observed students privately voice opinions…
Faculty Face Widespread Punishment for Speech, Administrators and Unions Stay Silent
…their speech. These range from lost professional relationships (47 percent) and workplace shunning (40 percent) to seeking psychological counseling to cope with the fallout (27 percent) or even losing their…
Trump’s Social Media Vetting Faces Free Speech Backlash. But Some Foreign Students Agree with Him.
The Trump administration’s new monitoring of social media for visa applicants and visa holders, in particular for international students, has generated vigorous debate over the free speech rights of non-Americans….
Why Universities Should Welcome (and Sign) Trump’s Compact
…commitment to rigorous and meritocratic selection based on objective and measurable criteria in the appointment process.” Section Four, “INSTITUTIONAL NEUTRALITY,” demands that university employees “abstain from actions or speech relating…
Academia’s Monsters
…Worlds. (Yeah, that’s probably too many metaphors in one paragraph. Fear does that to me.) [RELATED: U of Oregon Violates Free Speech in Halloween Costume Punishment] When that happens—as it…
Mead Chapel Will (Rightly) Haunt Middlebury
…time. Indeed, Mead’s 1912 speech predated the early genetic discoveries that would later discredit the movement and expose its moral and scientific failings. Additionally, this controversy didn’t arise from a…
Lisa Siraganian Gets Viewpoint Diversity Backward
…and within each of ourselves.” Conversation implies more than speech; it requires respect for the possibility that one might be wrong. Siraganian’s argument, for all its erudition, betrays a community…
The Rot Inside Higher Education Is Too Deep to Self-Correct
…these efforts are a violation of academic freedom and freedom of speech. In her view, they threaten nothing less than professors’ freedom to tell their students “what the evidence says…
UofL’s Selective Empathy
…assassinated at a college event in Utah while engaging in free speech. I was thinking about what a tragedy that was for his young children, who, being so young, will…
Visa Students: Non-Citizens Are Guests and Should Not Have the Same Rights as Americans
…free expression rights when they detained him because the actions were in response to—or retaliating for—the expression of his political views, ordinarily protected speech. They claim the free speech rights…
UPDATE: Texas State President Upholds Firing of Thomas Alter, Sparking Socialist-Led Protest
…The flyers further asserted that Damphousse “is eager to follow orders from a fascist government.” The pamphlets also read, “Free Speech, Free Gaza, Free Our School.” “The Firing of Dr….
Teachers’ Unions Have an Out-of-Control Anti-Semitism Problem
…speech and violence. In the same way that Berkeley educators and students were told that their venomous persecution of Jewish teachers was a “valid perspective,” culture increasingly views certain speech,…
The Tyranny of Democracy’s Self-Appointed Guardians
…years had unleashed the FBI on concerned parents who spoke against vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and woke indoctrination at school board meetings. The voluminous uptick in speech censorship on college…
In France, the Woke Are the Victims Now, Says Le Monde
…be weariness with the excesses of a fringe of the Democrats on wokeness. Yet, every time Kamala Harris began a speech by stating her “pronouns,” she lost 500,000 votes. National…
AAUP Declares Victory Over Trump’s ‘Thought Police,’ Promises To Protect Only the Right Kind of Free Speech
…suit with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, seeking to block the Trump administration from implementing this policy in an attempt to suppress speech (typically pro-Palestinian speech) that…
Ten Books That Influenced This Economist
…to this URL.) I first read Atlas in 1963, when I was 22 years old. I read it straight through—except for that horrid Galt speech; I simply couldn’t put it…
The University of Southern California Should Embrace Trump’s Compact
…and freedom of speech, and is a strong proponent of both. The son of two former USC graduate students from Korea, and one of the relatively few Asians Harvard allowed…
The Death of Discourse
…and two young children simply for exercising his freedom of speech at a college-sanctioned event. Just as many celebrated the demise of a man who they considered to be a…
He Kindled the Flame Academia Let Die
…challenged. Tens of thousands of students attended his free speech campus forums to hear his ideas, dispute his beliefs, and wrestle with concepts in ways few professors today dare to…
FAIR Files Civil Rights Complaint Over ‘Anti-Racist’ Study That Shamed White Students
…accountable including challenging racially discriminatory practices at the University of the District of Columbia, a racially hostile work environment at Penn State Abington, and standards that mandate compelled speech, by…
The Politics of an Anti-Woke Campus Op-Ed, Continued
…editorial calling for the university to rescind a speaking invitation to former Republican Vice President Mike Pence illustrates. That editorial was so contrary to free speech that then-UVA President Ryan…
UPDATE: Judge Ordered Texas State to Reinstate Fired Professor Thomas Alter
…if the court determines that his speech did not cross the line into incitement of violence. Time will tell, but regardless of the case’s outcome, it serves as yet another…