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A Critique of the New UW Madison Faculty Survey
There are serious problems with the survey questions, and we need to be careful not to adopt the author’s claims about “ideological imbalance and its consequences” uncritically.
Book Review: ‘The Opinionated University’
Soucek has a better and more nuanced approach to allowing departmental speech without infringing upon individual rights.
Jesse Jackson and the Myth of the Stanford Chant
The story about Jackson and the words he never chanted reveal how easy it is to repeat a lie so often that everyone becomes convinced that it was always true.
Censorship Is Bigger in Texas
Texas officials apparently think Texas students are stupid snowflakes who must be protected from hearing controversial ideas.
Why Colleges Shouldn’t Ban Bullying
College administrators already have far too many weapons to suppress free speech. Giving them another tool, with unchecked scope and ill-defined meaning, is dangerous.
Book Review: Campus Speech and Academic Freedom
In their new book, Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman critique current threats to campus free speech, but their narrow definition of academic freedom risks free expression.
The Hard Truth About FIRE’s Political Mistake
The false narrative that FIRE spread—that only “the on-campus left” endangered free speech within higher education—became the justification for external repression.
The Scarlet A: Activism Under Attack at Harvard
This latest firing exposes a problem of repression at Harvard that transcends ideological borders and threatens everyone’s freedom.