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."
Campus Free Speech
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?
Legal Group Sues University of Michigan Over Speech Code, Bias Response Team
"A bias response system has no place in America."
A Male Professor Told a Female Professor a Stupid Joke. Now He Faces Disciplinary Charges.
"A horrifying and chilling example of political correctness."
Reed Students Say Humanities 110 Should Not Include White or European Authors
Students at an Oregon liberal arts college launch a self-defeating crusade for a more diverse curriculum.
Administrators at CUNY and Duke Aren't Going to Do Anything About Students Who Disrupted Events
Speakers' free speech rights threatened
College Official on Why We Must Believe Alleged Crime Victims: It May Not Be the Truth, 'But It Is That Person's Truth'
"Let's believe what that person said."
Duke Students Who Hijacked Alumni Event: Punishing Us Would Hurt Us Mentally
Activists who stormed the stage were shocked when alumni in the audience dared to heckle them.
Ohio State University Wants to Expel a Woman for Nonconsensual Group Sex
But a judge thinks her due process rights were violated, since her accusers didn't even show up to the campus tribunal.
College Republicans Get In Huge Trouble for Posting 'I.C.E. I.C.E. Baby' Signs
But dumb, offensive speech still isn't violence.
Fresno State Shouldn't Fire a Professor for Saying She's Glad Barbara Bush Died
Randa Jarrar reveals hypocrisy on the right.
CUNY's Law Dean Is Wrong About the Attempted Shutdown of Josh Blackman
The student handbook makes it clear that students broke university policy.
Antifa Group Calls for 'Revolutionary Violence' Against Black Sociology Professor
"Reactionary violence, like rape and domestic violence and torture, can only be responded to with revolutionary violence."
CUNY Students Tried to Shout Down Josh Blackman. Here's Why They Failed.
"We're not children! You can't talk to us like that!"
Organized Heckling at CUNY School of Law of Prof. Josh Blackman Talk on Free Speech
Josh Blackman is one of the leading young libertarian/conservative law professors in the country.
This Stanford Alum Says She Was Raped 8 Years Ago, Demands a Title IX Investigation
"Time is an issue, and I feel like they were just very much dragging their feet."
Ben Sasse Asked Mark Zuckerberg Whether He Defines Hate Speech Like College Students Do
"You used language of safety and protection earlier. We see this happening on college campuses all across the country."
Student Thinks University of Michigan's Race Requirement Exists 'To Get White People To Be a Little Less Racist'
And yet we wonder why conservatives have soured on higher education.
Columbia Student Offended by Professor Who Said Negro Was Correct Term in the '60s
"I didn't pay attention in class after that."
Students Watched an Art Professor's Experimental Film. Then They Accused Him of Sexual Harassment.
"The people in that room all agreed that I had committed sexual harassment by showing my class this film."
Is There a 'Rape Culture' on College Campuses? Watch the Debate.
Journalist Cathy Young faces off against sociologist Michael Kimmel-with opening standup from comedian Dave Smith.
Video of Cato Institute Book Forum on Keith Whittington's "Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech"
The Forum features a talk by the author, with commentary by me.
Wellesley College's Freedom Project in Trouble for Promoting Wrong Kind of Diversity
The voices of intolerance have spoken.
Donald Trump Calls the Campus Free Speech Crisis 'Highly Overblown'
"I think the numbers are actually much different than people think."
University of Virginia Hires 'Social Sentinel' to Monitor Students' Social Media Posts
"They are being watched, and that's a problem."
Political Correctness Strikes Again: High School Teacher Fired for Offensive Comments About Troops
"The classroom should never be a place where students feel that they are picked at, bullied, intimidated."
Loyola Chicago Cuts Off Comedian Hannibal Buress's Mic After Politically Incorrect Performance
"He violated the mutually agreed upon content restriction clause in his contract."
YouTube Comedian Convicted of Hate Crime for Making Dumb Video of a Dog Saluting Hitler
"Keep fighting for free speech, the great meme war," said Count Dankula.
Some Pundits Say There's No Campus Free Speech 'Crisis.' Here's Why They're Wrong.
"Everything we think about the political correctness debate is wrong," says Vox's Matt Yglesias. Not exactly.
U. Miami Will Cover Security Costs of Student-Organized Charles Murray Debate on Free Speech
Very glad to see that there won't be a heckler's tax on the student group's invitation.
A Photo of Charles Murray Is Too Traumatizing for Some Middlebury College Students
"I recognize that it may be especially jarring, particularly for students of color..."
Students at Lewis and Clark College Shouted Down Christina Hoff Sommers: 'We Choose to Protest Male Supremacy'
"Microaggressions are real. The gender wage gap is real."
Antifa Shut Down a Planned Debate Between Yaron Brook and Sargon of Akkad at the King's College
"This was an act of violence...via a series of jackbooted totalitarian tactics."
Meet Speech First, a New Combatant in the Campus Free Speech Wars
"We wanted to capitalize on the real groundswell of support behind free speech from all walks of life."
Is It OK To Punch a Nazi? We Asked Berkeley Students
A year after fiery political protests erupted on campus, we visited to find out when students think it's OK to respond to words with violence.
