'Hate Speech Is the Secular Equivalent of Blasphemy' & Other Truths
As the EU tries to police offensive language, here's a better way to think about censorship: Screw off.
As the EU tries to police offensive language, here's a better way to think about censorship: Screw off.
A messy encounter at Washington State University.
'Libertarianism for Beginners' was born in seeing the Soviet Union collapse.
Of course, the claim relies on refusing to draw distinctions between violence, coercion, and persuasion.
A sexual assault at Stanford results in a miscarriage of justice.
'If the school is worsening my anxiety, that's their problem and they need to be held accountable for that'
Students form identity-based group in order to bash people they don't like.
'We have spoken. We are speaking. Pay attention.'
Reason's Robby Soave and Matt Welch discuss the current climate of political correctness among college students.
Bombshell report says Baylor officials and coaches retaliated against rape accusers, but is maddeningly vague and short on details.
Let students join fraternities if they want to.
Contradictory guidance on trans bathrooms and campus sexual harassment.
'The team is not there to pass judgment.'
University of Missouri administrators forced the team to accept weak players, for equality.
Fifty years of affirmative action has fomented racial inequality at colleges.
Guess who created Haven.Monahan@yahoo.com?
She talks feminism, Beyonce's Lemonade, Prince's career, and more.
University of Kansas Communications Professor Andrea Quenette is a victim of political correctness in the classroom.
"Maybe, instead of taking a fifth field trip to the Trail of Tears site, take one to learn about real jobs in an area they might want."
Extreme political correctness is (finally) sparking a reaction that places free expression as "the bedrock" upon which higher education rests.
Making trans kids more comfortable is a laudable outcome, but some concern is merited.
"Don't feel like you got to shut your ears because you're too fragile and somebody might offend your sensibilities," said Obama.
To save free speech on campus, Congress or the courts must rein in an out-of-control federal agency.
Milo Yiannopoulos elicits predictable condemnation from the University of California-Irvine.
Both the social-justice left and the alt-right view the world primarily through identity politics.
I don't want to tell students how to interpret a text before they have even read it.
An analysis of 50 years of U.S. court cases shows professors seldom win in speech battles with school administrators, and it's only getting worse.
The Obama administration's record on free expression lies in contrast with the president's advice to college kids.
There is no ethnic group that owns the color blue.
There's no such thing as a non-controversial commencement speaker.
A fascinating, frightening glimpse into the activities of the Bias Response Team.
Because we wouldn't want lawyers to understand the intricacies of controversial legal subjects.
Free association is a liberal value, but not at Harvard.
It's not enough to support transgender rights: one must also use the right pronouns, or risk being called a Nazi.
The Interfraternity Council Monday apologized for how the anti-assault banners "may have been emotionally triggering for survivors."
An effort in the legislature to urge UC regents to refrain from expanding labor institutes to UC-Irvine met with union opposition.
President Obama disagrees.
Students surrounded SDSU President Elliot Hirshman and prevented him from moving.
Students will learn to report bias incidents (like pro-Trump chalk messages).
Administrators said the decision puts them "on the right side of history."
Boris Johnson no-platformed over Kenya comments.
If statistics are true, young men sentenced to prison should breathe a sigh of relief: "At least I wasn't accepted to Harvard."
At Pitzer College, offense trumps art.
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