7 Things You Should Know About Free Speech in Schools
Episode 1 of Free Speech Rules, a new video series by UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh
Campus Free Speech
University of London Makes Comedians Sign a 'Safe Space' Agreement
"This comedy night...aims to provide a safe space for everyone to share and listen."
Activists Force Santa Barbara City College VP to Take Leave For Using the N-Word While Explaining Why It's Bad
"I was complicit. I recognize that I need to reflect on what took place and do thoughtful, informed work to educate myself."
Columbia University Students Kick Former SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage For Making Unsafe Jokes
Event organizers apologize for "the hurt his words caused members of the community."
Some Temple University Administrators Want Marc Lamont Hill Fired For 'Hate Speech'
"Free speech is one thing. Hate speech is entirely different."
Gonzaga University Won't Let Ben Shapiro Speak on Campus
"Events policy requires us to consider whether an event would pose substantial risk to the safety of any member of our campus community."
Rutgers University Reverses Course, Affirms Free Speech Rights for Professor Accused of Anti-White Racism
"Any other result would have undermined the free speech and academic freedom rights of all Rutgers faculty members."
U. Pittsburgh Wants YAF to Pay $5,500 Security Fee to Host Ben Shapiro
"It opens the door ... to charge conservatives for more security, whereas leftist speakers are not charged extra fees."
USC Education Student Filed a Title IX Complaint Because Another Student's Answer Offended Her
Rossier School of Education student also created a petition to require racial sensitivity training.
'Long Time, No See' Is Considered Offensive, Non-Inclusive Language at Colorado State University
"Viewed as derogatory towards those of Asian descent."
Sarah Lawrence Professor's Office Door Vandalized After He Criticized Leftist Bias
Samuel Abrams says the college's president accused him of "attacking" the community and suggested he might be looking for a new job.
Criticizing a Drag Show Earned This Catholic College Student a Visit From the Title IX Coordinator
"My identity is not up for debate."
Harvard's Recruitment Efforts Prioritized White Students Over High-Achieving Asians
What worked to limit Jewish enrollment 100 years ago has also worked to limit Asian enrollment.
Did Trump's Election Traumatize 25% of College Students? Study's Author Says No
"The students were not asked if they were traumatized and they were not asked if they experienced a traumatic event."
An Ohio University Student Said She Received Death Threats. The Police Think She Sent Them Herself.
The Student Senate has no regrets, will continue to believe survivors.
U. Penn Faculty Must Undergo Implicit Bias Training Before Serving on Hiring Committees
Raises concerns about academic freedom, pseudoscience.
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.
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.
