Faculty Lounge UPenn Administration: Free Speech Doesn’t Mean You Can Shut Down a Speech Spencer Irvine April 9, 2016 But student protesters did just that last week at the University of Pennsylvania, preventing John Brennan of the CIA from…
Faculty Lounge Suspended Marquette Professor Will Probably Sue the University Spencer Irvine April 7, 2016 John McAdams may sue Marquette over his suspension, which was for blogging: President Michael Lovell told McAdams in a letter…
Faculty Lounge Bias Reporting Creates a Culture of Silence, Op-Ed says Spencer Irvine April 3, 2016 Well, it does. Carleton College professors aren’t fans of bias reporting: Two Carleton College professors are uneasy about the “bias…
Faculty Lounge WATCH: Leftist Students Protest, Walk Out of Ben Shapiro’s UNC Speech Spencer Irvine It backfired, as more students filed in once the protesters left. Ouch! A staged walkout by liberal students during a…
Faculty Lounge Free Speech Crackdown is a Good Thing, College Student Claims Spencer Irvine April 2, 2016 Editor’s Note: Latest spin on free speech crackdown—change the world by changing the campus. Zachary Wood, guest blogging at the AAUP’s…
Faculty Lounge Another Teacher Put on Leave in Minnesota due to Personal Views on Social Media Spencer Irvine March 29, 2016 Wait, are we suspending people because of their right to free speech and the First Amendment? If you’ve missed it,…
Perspectives Silver Linings to Student Meltdowns Malcolm A. Kline March 27, 2016 The bad news is that student protestors today are more openly totalitarian than demonstrators of the 1960s. The good…
Guest Articles Conservative Student Warriors Vs. the Snowflake Rebellion Deborah Lambert March 26, 2016 The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has never been known as a venue for self-help seminars, but in 2016 it…
Guest Articles John McAdams Punished With Longer Suspension, Forced Apology John K. Wilson March 25, 2016 Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in the AAUP’s Academe Blog. Marquette University yesterday announced the punishment of John McAdams for…
Faculty Lounge Free Speech Bill Dies in Tennessee Legislature after Hypothetical ISIS Comment is Raised Spencer Irvine March 23, 2016 This isn’t a joke; lawmakers feared a potential ISIS recruitment scenario: “Tennessee lawmakers will not vote on a bill designed to…
Perspectives Academic Free Speech Freefall Malcolm A. Kline March 21, 2016 It is one of the many ironies of our modern age that one of the places that the first amendment…
Guest Articles Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas Allan C. Brownfield March 16, 2016 Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation website. ALEXANDRIA, VA — When it comes to…
