Must Universities Negotiate with Protesters?
No
Executive VP of FIRE Nico Perrino discusses the history and legality of campus protests.
The owner of the Comedy Cellar and viral podcaster wants to argue with you about Israel, the media, and whether women are funny.
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The college had a legal right to break up the pro-Palestine encampment. But does that mean it should?
"And no matter how peaceful the students' behavior may be, unilaterally taking over a central portion of our campus for one side of a hotly disputed issue and precluding use by other members of our community is not right."
The former Senator says "the adults are still in charge" in Gainesville
An interesting report that helps explain why the messaging, tactics, and methods adopted by campus protestors have been so similar across the country.
A Jewish journal argues the problem is not the Act's definition of antisemitism, but the larger anti-speech bureaucratic edifice.
"I am writing today to reiterate the reasons why the encampment is so problematic and why I am calling on you to end it."
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The protesters deserve criticism—but Congress is the real threat.
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Even vile speech is protected, but violence and other rights violations are not.
The latest video podcast episode from Prof. Jane Bambauer and me.
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The bill would allow the Education Department to effectively force colleges to suppress a wide range of protected speech.
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A newly-obtained intelligence memo shows that the feds took a keen interest in Trump-era campus speech controversies.
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In March, Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order demanding that colleges crack down on antisemitic speech.
It supposedly bans financing terrorism, but that's already illegal. It's really a power grab for the secretary of the treasury.
The university has a history of suppressing speech from both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
whether at administrators' homes or in law school classrooms.
"What's the most effective way for law students to fight injustice?"
The psychologist and bestselling author argues that Harvard's free speech policy was so "selectively prosecuted that it became a national joke."
The president of the new University of Austin wants to reverse the decline of higher education in America.
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