Try Not to Live By Lies
…perfect steward for immigration. Violent anti-Israel protests are exalted as the highest form of free speech. Speech itself is violence. Whites are oppressors. Abortion is reframed as family planning. “Diversity,…
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‘Girls Don’t Want It’: Student Rips Sorority for Allowing Male Member
…also “forces ideology onto girls…[by making] everyone fearful to speak up,” Green said. Ultimately, it hinders “free speech and open discussion,” she told The Fix. “And, let’s be honest, while…
Biden Administration Prods Universities to Restrict Speech, In Investigation of Drexel University
…a hostile environment or substantially interferes with an individual’s work—the policy provides no shelter for core protected speech,” such as speech about “gender politics and sexual morality,” or “gender-motivated” speech…
Politicized Psychology Is Unraveling Minds: The Field Needs to Return to Objective, Evidence-Based Practices
…to free speech and freedom from compelled speech. What is going underreported in this incident are the psychological effects of public shaming and adult catastrophizing, likely to haunt these children…
DEI’s Inevitable Descent into Legal Trouble
…ruling, Title VI and Title VII. Develop and disseminate clear definitions of protected vs. unprotected speech. Commit to intellectual diversity and academic freedom. Avoid compelled political or ideological speech as…
Obama Promised Hope but Delivered Racial Animosity. Academia Follows Suit.
…required, and dissent needed to be ruthlessly suppressed. Freedom of speech, which had been lauded as a virtue while these radical ideas existed on the fringes of academia, now became…
Our Teachable Moment: Is Anyone Learning Anything?
…occasions recently to talk to my students about freedom of speech and the First Amendment. These FAQs from FIRE provide an excellent point of departure, especially with their focus on…
The Red Scare Was No Moral Panic
…in what seems on the surface to be a conciliatory speech. There’s just one problem with all of this tear-jerking about “civil rights violations:” Dalton Trumbo was a Communist, and…
Why Music Thrives in Our Universities
…students regarding choice and style, and it is strictly independent of their skill level. Institutional rules cannot control it: music is the ultimate free speech act. Even the “Chicago Principles”…
Biden Administration’s ‘Anti-Harassment’ Mandate to Colleges Tells Them to Violate the First Amendment
…guidelines. The Education Department is pressuring colleges to restrict speech that denounces pro-Palestine protesters or denigrates Jews or Palestinians—such as speech calling pro-Palestine protesters “terrorists”—under the rationale that such speech…
Just Like MIT, Every University Should Reject Political ‘Diversity Statements’
…intentions, but the experiment failed. First, requiring DEI statements of job applicants, in practice, has routinely functioned as forced political speech. Not everyone who affirms the ideal of a racially…
Blame Woke Mind Virus, Not Coronavirus, for Young Americans’ Mental Health Crisis
…Nephew. Given the rise of campus safetyism, speech codes, cancel culture, and the underlying stronghold of liberal values, college students nowadays are rapidly developing immunity against inconvenient facts and controversial…
Can Harvard Faculty and Students Trust a Dean Who Wants to Punish Speech?
Harvard Dean of Social Science Lawrence Bobo set off a firestorm last week when he published an article suggesting faculty should be punished for publicly criticizing the university. His position,…
Harvard Dean Bobo’s Appeal to Institutional Loyalty Falls Short
Harvard Dean Lawrence Bobo writes in the Harvard Crimson that faculty speech should have limits. There are, he says, responsibilities as well as rights associated with academic freedom: As Harvard…
Harvard’s ‘Abysmal’ Year Continues
Harvard’s year has been one for the history books. It ranked last in the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s annual college free speech survey, earning its own category of…
Thucydides and Us
…Thucydides uses to contextualize Pericles’s funereal speech (2.47–54) suggest poetic license. Can writing history involve poetic license? It’s a composite. Thucydides’s point is that crisis sows fear—phobos—which drives social behavior….
Identifying and Refuting Marxism on Campus
…Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto (p. 20). Neeland Media LLC. Kindle Edition. [ii] Ronald Reagan, “Evil Empire Speech.” March 8, 1983. https://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/reagan-evil-empire-speech-text. [iii] Marx, Karl. The Communist Manifesto (p. 17)….
Lysenko Award, Again!
…day to submit nominations for the Trofim Lysenko Award! Nominate someone in academia who has suppressed academic speech and inquiry for political reasons and include a brief explanation of why…
Can Harvard Win Back America’s Respect?
…Harvard graduate Senator John Fetterman, in a graduation speech at Yeshiva University, dramatically took off his Harvard hood (he has a degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government), saying it…
Dear ‘Atlantic’: The Golden Age of American Jews Ends Only If We Let It
…first Jewish American to die fighting for America. President Washington’s 1790 speech to the congregation at the Touro Synagogue in Rhode Island assured the congregants that the new country would…
Send Your Nominations for the 2024 MTC Lysenko Award
It’s time again for the Minding the Campus (MTC) Trofim Lysenko Award for the Suppression of Academic Speech. Named after the notorious Stalinist pseudoscientist whose crackpot agronomist theories—and persecution of…
‘ChatGPT Is Really Helpful:’ The Martin Center Interviews Carolina’s AI Experts
…to remember my speech. And Socrates was worried that if we don’t have to remember anything, it’s going to rewire the brain, as psychologists are fond of saying. We’re going…
Ole Miss investigates student for making monkey noises in political debate, despite looming free speech issue
…between being “free speech absolutists” in defense of their own side’s speech, to being avid censors of ugly speech by the other side. A classic example is the progressive media…
A Simple Test for Diversity and Inclusion
…entrusted to enforce them. University appeasers claim that their hands are tied by free speech protections. Yet, in other contexts, as Abigail Shrier noted, DEI advocates aggressively police speech to…
No, Mr. Mayor, Outside Organizers Are Not Responsible for Student Radicalism
…every unit, at huge cost, to serve as political commissars policing thought and speech, so that no one can deviate from politically “correct” belief and expression. Any professor, lecturer, or…
Progressive cities won’t enforce trespass laws against left-wing anti-Israel protesters, violating First Amendment rule against viewpoint discrimination
…can be protected, see National Socialist White People’s Party v. Ringers (1973)). But in practice, white nationalist speech — or even speech that is wrongly perceived as white nationalism —…
Top of Mind: Anti-Semitic Protesters
…speech absolutist approach overlook critical truths about both the demonstrators and the broader movement opposing Israel. While not every critique of Israel is rooted in anti-Semitism, it’s undeniable that American…
Time for Our Counterculture
Scarcely a month passes without encountering yet one more new faculty group dedicated to promoting intellectual diversity on campus, yet one more manifesto celebrating campus free speech, and yet one…
Identity Crisis at Middlebury
…as chairman of the committee that oversaw Vermont’s 1930 Eugenics Survey. Yet Mead is whitewashed while Moody is still vaunted. Middlebury College is now famous for stifling free speech and…
Trump, Harvard, and Godfather Politics
…for killing Jews while repressing far more normal conservative speech. On her watch as an administrator, Harvard plummeted to last (248th) on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s college…