Should We Care About College Commencement Speakers?
Maybe a little, but don't get carried away
Campus Free Speech
Stossel: Harvard Caves to Student Mob
Alan Dershowitz: "The inmates run the asylum."
Alt-Right, Woke Left Join Forces to Cancel Kyle Kashuv for Past Comments He Regrets
"I want to be clear that the comments I made are not indicative of who I am or who I've become in the years since."
Justin Amash's Principled Stand Against Trump Will Not Make Him Popular in the GOP
Plus: Game of Thrones ends, Trump's trade war with China regrettably does not.
The Skewed Line-Up of Commencement Speakers
A parade of celebrities, business owners, and politicians and activists from one side of the political aisle
Harvard Caves to Student Mob, Fires Ronald Sullivan for Being Harvey Weinstein's Lawyer
"We are surprised and dismayed by the action Harvard announced today."
Princeton Student Activists Have a List of Title IX Demands That Aren't All Bad
They want restorative justice and facts about disproportionate punishment for students of color
Activists Say Professor Who Criticized Them Is a Threat to Student Safety, Insist Seton Hall Must Fire Him
The administration capitulated immediately, placing Williamjames Hoffer on leave pending an investigation.
The Commencement Speaker Shuffle
What is college graduation season without a few protests and disinvitations?
'Unbridled and Performative Student Activism Is a Disease of Affluence': Camille Paglia Edition
Some students at the University of the Arts want the firebrand feminist fired. Where did they get the idea they should be picking faculty?
Don't Let the Woke Scolds Ruin Cinco de Mayo
Tacos, tequila, and sombreros are not the path to white supremacy.
10 Colleges Where You Won't Have To Walk on Eggshells
These schools are seriously committed to civil and diverse debate.
Columbia College Theater Students Feel Unsafe About White Students Getting Parts Written for Palestinians After None Tried Out
"It got to a place where nobody felt safe."
Williams College Students Claim 'Free Speech Harms,' Fight Efforts to Adopt the Chicago Principles
"Students were just screaming that we were trying to 'kill them.'"
This High School's 'Political Radicalism' Class Lets Students Hear From Far-Right and Far-Left Speakers
College campuses, take note.
Middlebury College Disinvites Polish Politician Ryszard Legutko, Fails Free Speech Test Yet Again
Protesters said it was "absolutely, unequivocally" not their intention to shut down Legutko. The administration panicked anyway.
Middlebury College Cancels Speech by Polish Politician-Academic
The speech had been cosponsored by three faculty-run programs at the College.
Concordia University Disinvites Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield Over His Conservative Gender Views
Administrator says they "were unable to reach consensus as to what we wanted to achieve with this event," which is pure doublespeak.
Harvard President Lawrence Bacow to Activist Students Who Shut Down His Talk: 'The Heckler's Veto Has No Place' Here
"Everyone who has been invited to speak at Harvard in recent memory-has been able to do so."
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
The Columbia University linguist discusses the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion.
John McWhorter: America Has Never Been Less Racist
Columbia linguist John McWhorter on the Jussie Smollett hoax, Donald Trump, and "antiracism" as a new secular religion.
Activists Disrupt Law Professor's Talk at the University of Chicago
"This is not a terribly effective tactic of persuasion, loudly yelling so students can't hear."
GMU Student: 'The Hiring of Brett Kavanaugh Threatens the Mental Well-Being of All Survivors on Campus'
Some students want GMU to #CancelKavanaugh. Some professors want the school to investigate the justice.
Are Humans Predisposed by Evolution To Get Along?: Podcast
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says natural selection "prewires" us for peaceful co-existence.
Michigan State Students Filed Bias Incident Reports Over Some Really Petty Things
"A student complains twice in three days that someone posted a cartoon making fun of liberals in a residence hall and it offended her."
The Yale Professor Attacked by Angry Students Over Halloween Costumes Believes Evolution Wants Us To Get Along
In Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas Christakis says our common humanity outweighs divisive tribalism.
Joe Biden Pushed Policies That Deprived Men of Due Process in Campus Sexual Misconduct Disputes
Biden has arguably failed to live up to the affirmative consent standard he sounded so fond of.
George Mason Students Want Visiting Professor Brett Kavanaugh Fired Over Sexual Misconduct Allegations
"As a survivor, as a student who comes to this university, and expects to have a good education, to experience a happy, safe place, I am insulted."
Arizona Students Arrested for Interrupting a Border Patrol Event Have Free Speech Rights, Too
"There is simply not enough information...to confirm that the protestors' conduct, taken as a whole, constituted unprotected disruption."
About that Campus Free Speech Executive Order
A crude tool unlikely to do much good and that might do some harm.
Trump: 'Universities Have Tried to Impose Total Conformity. That Changes Starting Right Now.'
The president signed an executive order supporting free speech on college campuses.
Trump Will Sign Executive Order Requiring Colleges To Promote 'Free Inquiry' If They Want Federal Research Funds
"It is the policy of the federal government to encourage institutions to foster environments that promote open, intellectually engaging, and diverse debate."
University of Cambridge Cancels Jordan Peterson's Visiting Fellowship Because He Is Not 'Inclusive'
The university "is an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot."
New Study: Trigger Warnings Are Effectively Useless
The coping devices had trivial effects "even for people with a history of trauma."
Conservatives Want UC-Davis to Fire a Professor Who Welcomed Violence Against Cops
Joshua Clover has a First Amendment right to say horrible things about the police.
Activist Students Demand Sarah Lawrence College Punish a Conservative Professor for Expressing His Views
"The College must issue a statement condemning the harm that Abrams has caused to the college community, specifically queer, Black, and female students."
Reed College Trains RAs to Recognize Covert White Supremacy. Examples: 'Colorblindness' and 'Assuming Good Intentions Are Enough.'
"It's provocative, and that was the intention."
23-Year-Old Coleman Hughes Is Reframing the Discussion on Race: Podcast
Meet the undergrad who is recovering the legacy of gay, socialist civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin while explicating Kanye West's conservatism.
Securing Free Speech on Campus, Part II
Universities should be proactive about articulating, defending and protecting the free exchange of ideas on campus
Political Correctness Is Ruining Academic Journals
The stupidity of these journals says a lot about what's taught at colleges today.
Securing Free Speech on Campus, Part I
If universities do not take steps to address their campus free speech problems, politicians will do it for them
Trump Vows That an Executive Order on Campus Free Speech Is Coming 'Very Soon'
An official tells Reason that a draft of the EO targets federal grants to universities and colleges.
A Harvard Law Professor Is Representing Harvey Weinstein. Students Say This Makes Them Unsafe, Demand His Resignation.
Ronald Sullivan's choice of clients is "not only upsetting, but deeply trauma-inducing," according to activist students.
A Conservative Got Punched in the Face for Protesting Hate Crime Hoaxes
"Encouraging violence"
Community College Bans Pro-Second-Amendment Banner with Picture of Rifles
A clear violation of the First Amendment -- and not even justified under the College's own stated reasons.
