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Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts,” Michael Saunders, a member of the University of Washington Student Senate, introduced a resolution to create a system for students and staff […]

In George Orwell’s dystopian view of the totalitarian state in his novel 1984, freedom of speech and expression is controlled completely, and if the individual seeks to articulate his views openly it is considered to be something called a “thoughtcrime,” “the essential crime that contained all others in itself.” And in that repressive future, the […]

As much as liberal academics and the liberal media rail against President Donald Trump’s “fake news” monikor, there is a real threat to free speech and free press: liberal college and university campuses. As John K. Wilson at Academe Blog pointed out, many of the Top 25 universities and colleges in the United States have […]

There are teams of university officials at hundreds of universities in the United States in place to make sure that it doesn’t.

When university policies are tested off campus, they usually don’t fare too well. Let’s see how far this one goes.

In fact, the academy is no longer a haven for First Amendment absolutists, if it ever was.

A Navy veteran might find he ran into less red tape defending his country in the service than he will passing out copies of the U. S. Constitution at Bunker Hill Community College.

Berkeley is creating a financial version of the heckler’s veto, and it must be rejected.

In his latest book, No Campus for White Men, author Scott Greer dives into the Left’s continued war on free speech, common sense and the Caucasian male.

From The Unz Review: No matter how you slice or dice it, today’s universities, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, are intellectual wastelands often more committed to propagating the Leftist faith than knowledge. The campus vocabulary says it all: trigger warnings, safe spaces, micro-aggressions, social justice warriors, cultural appropriation, speech codes, and disinviting –while […]

Jay Schalin,  Director of Policy Analysis at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education, wrote an insightful report on academic freedom in public versus private colleges, the roots and evolution of academic freedom, and the changes within the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which governs faculty. Schalin’s report highlighted the misperceptions of what […]

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Academe Blog. It’s praiseworthy that the University of Chicago has announced to its students a “commitment to freedom of inquiry and expression.” But there is a problem: in this announcement, the University actually calls for limiting freedom of expression, and University of Chicago policies also severely […]