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Texas Ban on Transgender Course Content Sows Chaos
Verbal-only policies prohibiting academic discussions of trans identity appear to be extending beyond the Texas Tech system and now include anti-trans curricular reviews.
Fighting Back Against ‘The War on Tenure’
Deepa Das Acevedo’s new book is a response to the erosion of tenure protections that has become all too clear in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death.
The Em Dash Debate We Should Be Having
All the fuss about AI and the em dash offers an opportunity to rethink the overuse of this most beloved but mostly unnecessary punctuation mark, Brenda Thomas writes.
Advising The Girl
In good conscience, I can’t recommend she pursue a career teaching literature, at which she would excel.
Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom
In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.
Professor Fired for ‘Inciting Violence’ to Be Reinstated
Charlie Kirk: Hero of ‘Civil Discourse’ or Fount of Division?
Pointing to the slain activist’s inflammatory statements about minority groups, some are pushing back—at their own peril—against the right’s framing of him as an emblem of quality discourse.
In Defense of Distasteful Faculty Speech
The wave of faculty firings following Charlie Kirk’s killing is a dangerous development for First Amendment principles, Nicholas Creel writes.