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Left-wing indoctrination has been at the center of ongoing education activism as parents protested school boards for encouraging or permitting one-sided political narratives to be taught in public schools. A recent example of indoctrination’s effects is a recent anti-police rally at the office of a Maryland public school administrative building. High school students rallied outside […]

In 1978, the significant Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case brought the term “diversity” into the lexicon of higher education. Although the Court found that the medical school at the University of California at Davis had used an unconstitutional quota system in denying Alan Bakke admission, Justice Lewis Powell made his now-famous observation that, notwithstanding the inherent […]

Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted at their recent annual meeting to advance a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of Israeli academics to a full membership vote in 2022. The sententious language of the MESA boycott resolution, which ironically purports […]

As if further evidence were needed for the hypocrisy about who may say what about whom on college campuses, the recent action by the Duke Student Government to withhold recognition to a new pro-Israel student group seems to confirm that academic free speech is not always free depending on who is speaking. On November 9th, […]

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. Seeming to give credence to Bertrand Russell’s observation that “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so […]

A study from New York University (NYU) advocated for states to help illegal immigrants gain more access to government programs and benefits.

Sometimes what looks like bad news inside academe may actually be a good omen for the rest of us.

Despite the party line coming out of the media and academia.

An anti-Israeli resolution narrowly passed at the University of Minnesota, but whose language led to strong comments by the university president on the flaws of the resolution itself.

The other UN, the University of Nebraska, that is.

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have issued a report on “National Security, the Assault on Science, and Academic Freedom” that might leave readers who have studied such matters scratching their heads.

Long before the hooded, masked, and dressed-in-black Antifa thugs marauded across campuses such as Berkeley, other supposed progressive campus activists had been raging an ideological war against ideas with which they disagreed.