University of Michigan Punished a Professor for Refusing to Write a Recommendation Letter for a Student Studying in Israel
Trying to compel this sort of speech violates the rights of professors.
Campus Free Speech
Study: 80% of Americans Believe Political Correctness Is a Problem
"Most members of the 'exhausted majority,' and then some, dislike political correctness."
Woman Alleges Police Demanded She Remove Anti-Kavanaugh Sign
The Hamilton, Texas City Manager, claims the police didn't threaten her or forcibly remove the sign, but that "a police member visited the owner's home, and the owner asked the officer to take the sign."
Harvard Students Filed Multiple Title IX Complaints Against Brett Kavanaugh To Get Him Fired
"This is such an absurd contortion of Title IX that I suspect even those filing the complaint know it's unlikely to succeed as a matter of law."
Yale Law Professors Cancel Classes So Students Can Protest Brett Kavanaugh
"For civil disobedience to be praiseworthy and serious, protestors must be willing to bear the costs of the then-extant sanctions."
Professor Defends a Woman Accused of a Sex Crime, University Forces Him to Undergo Sexual Harassment Training
"Can a faculty member now never speak on the character of an ex-student when they are in trouble with the law?"
In Constitution Day Speech, Betsy DeVos Says 'Government Muscle' Is Not the Answer to the Campus Free Speech Problem
"Solutions won't come from new laws from Washington, D.C., or from a speech police at the U.S. Department of Education."
Department of Education Decision May Pressure Universities to Restrict Some Anti-Israel Speech
The Office for Civil Rights decision is in some ways opaque and equivocal, but the message to universities seems pretty powerful -- such decisions about enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights of Act may turn on whether the university tolerates certain criticisms of Israel that OCR has now labeled "anti-Semitic."
Speech Codes and "Twisting Title IX"
The weird interrelationship between harassment law and campus free speech
Speech Code Hokey Pokey: How Campus Speech Codes Could Rebound
If you believe that unconstitutional speech codes are a scandal at public universities, two recent cases should worry you.
CUNY Investigated a Student for 'Triggering' Comment About Israel
"It was explained to them why this is hate speech and that it is offensive and triggering."
Good News and Bad News About Campus Speech Codes
A very brief history of the rise and fall (and potential rise again) of campus speech codes. [UPDATE: Very sorry, at first accidentally labeled this as my post -- it's actually Greg Lukianoff's & Adam Goldstein's.]
A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them
At behest of a feminist professor, an academic journal's board reportedly threatened to "harass the journal until it died."
The Coddling of the American Mind, Campuses, and the Law
Campus mental health, freedom of speech, and government policy.
Discipline of UNM Med Student for "Unduly Inflammatory" Anti-Abortion Post Upheld
There is no "clearly established" First Amendment rights of public university professional school students to engage in such speech, a federal court holds.
Ohio State Employs Dozens of Diversity Staffers, and Nine Make More Than $100,000
The top-paid OSU diversity czar makes $265,000.
Challenge to Ban on "Literature with Offensive Content" at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
The policy -- here, applied to someone passing out religious valentines -- also bans "signs ... with offensive content," and more generally limits even nonoffensive signs and leafleting to a narrow "free speech zone."
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Overprotective Parenting Led to Fragility on Campus
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff explain how "good intentions and bad ideas" have made young people super-fragile-and how to make things better.
End of History Author Francis Fukuyama Thinks Leftist Identity Politics Helped Create Trump
Plus: Why Jordan Peterson may be right about postmodern neo-Marxism.
The Importance of Uncomfortable Conversations
Uncensored author and new college grad Zachary R. Wood explains why his generation is so scared of viewpoint diversity.
A Black Male Student Says a White Woman Bit, Choked, and Pinned Him While They Were Kissing. Guess Who Got Suspended?
A judge sides with a Brown University student who says the Title IX process was unfair and discriminatory.
Rutgers Can Criticize a White Professor for Anti-White Racism, But Punishing Him Would Violate Free Speech
"Okay, officially, I now hate white people" is a gross statement that deserves First Amendment protection.
Feminists Rally to Defense of Female Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment by Male Student
#MeToo madness: it's wrong to use Title IX, a feminist tool, "to take down a feminist."
Chapman U. President Doesn't Want His Campus 'UnKoched': Podcast
Daniele Struppa says progressives who would deny money simply because of who gives it pose "a grave threat to academic freedom."
New Study: Trigger Warnings Might Make People Less Resilient to Trauma
"Trigger warnings may inadvertently undermine some aspects of emotional resilience."
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules for Conservative Professor Who Wrote Controversial Blog Post
Marquette is ordered to reinstate John McAdams.
Heterodox Academy Fights For Intellectual Freedom and Diversity Among Professors: Podcast
Deb Mashek explains why intellectual diversity can't be optional if we're serious about higher education.
Will the ACLU Defend Controversial Speech? Ira Glasser, Wendy Kaminer, Nadine Strossen React to the Memo
President David Cole says guidelines "are explicitly designed to help affiliates and national staff think through various factors in case selection decisions."
Leaked Internal Memo Reveals the ACLU Is Wavering on Free Speech
"Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed."
Stossel: Jordan Peterson vs. 'Social Justice Warriors'
Peterson: "SJWs" evolved from Marxism.
Jordan Peterson vs. the Left
Left-wing critics try to silence the University of Toronto professor.
University of Michigan Realizes Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings, Changes Speech Policy
A day after DOJ joined free speech lawsuit, UM agreed to change policy that said "the most important indication of bias is your own feelings."
Department of Justice Backs Free Speech Lawsuit Against University of Michigan Bias Response Team
"The United States has a significant interest in the vigilant protection of constitutional freedoms in institutions of higher learning."
After Stanford's Niall Ferguson Controversy, Free Speech Conservatives Need to Practice What They Preach
"Slowly, we will continue to crush the Left's will to resist, as they will crack under pressure."
Samantha Bee Apologizes for Insulting Ivanka Trump After Right and Left Play 'We're Offended' Tit-for-Tat
Conservatives want to hold the left to the Roseanne standard.
Why Judy Gold Doesn't Play Colleges: 'You Don't Tell a Comic What Topics They Can Discuss on Stage'
A new Vice feature by Michael Moynihan highlights not just disillusioned comics but campus bookers ready to "pull the microphone" from performers who use language deemed intolerant.
NFL's National Anthem Policy Exposes Free Speech Hypocrisy of Right, Left, and Trump
"You have to stand proudly for the national anthem," Trump says, "or you shouldn't be playing."
Prof Bumps Female Students' STEM Grades (Because They're Women)
Free extra credit to "encourage female students to go [in]to information sciences."
SUNY Binghamton Tries to Suppress Students' Flyers Because They "Offended" Other Students
[UPDATE: The university is now reported (as of Friday, May 25) to be saying that no investigation is taking place, and that the original student newspaper account saying that there was such an investigation was mistaken; but the university hadn't responded to FIRE's earlier queries about the matter, and it hadn't responded to my query before I had to put up my post.]
88% of Pomona Students Think the Campus Climate Silences Them
"'Very liberal' students are nearly four times more likely than moderate and conservative students to favor prohibiting some types of speech."
Steven Pinker Loves the Enlightenment
The Harvard psychologist splits the difference between Dr. Pangloss and Pope Francis.
Georgetown Students Host Community Dialogue on Racism, Ask White Allies Not to Attend
"For the safety of students of color"
2 in 5 Top-Ranking Liberal Arts Schools Have No Full-Time Republican Professors
New study explores liberal bias of university faculty-it's worse than we thought
Male Student Accuses Female Student of Sexual Assault. She Says He Wanted Revenge.
Title IX creates a prisoner's dilemma: students have to file sexual misconduct complaints to avoid becoming the accused.
Conservative Student Accuses Liberals of 'Emotional Attacks,' Liberals File Retaliatory Complaints
A pox on all the snowflakes
To Fight Patriarchy, Female Cornell Student Presents Thesis in Her Underwear
Does this really not violate Title IX?
