At Skidmore College, where there are no immediately identifiable conservatives, faculty members have started to intimidate liberals with stray thoughts. Robert Boyers, an English professor at Skidmore, recounted a couple of recent episodes in The…
Topic: free speech
Conservative Students Stopped from Protesting ‘Social Justice Week’
Free speech is subjective at Regis University? The university is alleged to have shut down the freedom of speech of conservative students, who protested the university’s ‘Social Justice Week,’ per Campus Reform: Alexander Beck, president…
Socialist Students Vow to Disrupt Charles Murray’s Speech at Columbia University
Update: Murray’s lecture at Columbia University was peaceful and the socialists did not disrupt the speech, after all. Another possible debate and lecture disrupted by the Left, with the speaker being the American Enterprise Institute…
Academic Intolerance: An Inside View
We have an old Pennsylvania Dutch saying that goes: “Ve grow too soon alt und too late schmart.” Perhaps many college officers feel this way. “Over the years, I have watched a growing intolerance at…
Charles Murray will speak at Notre Dame, despite Protest Threats
Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will be speaking at Notre Dame. His speech at Middlebury College made national headlines as he was shouted down and protesters were demonstrative and disruptive. There…
Report: The Higher the Tuition, the More Prone to Stifling Open Debate of Ideas
Surprising results? A Brookings report discovered that the higher the college tuition and the wealthier the student body, the more likely that the college will stifle the open debate of ideas (see: Middlebury College): “The…
College Bias Response Teams Chill Free Speech
Our friend George Leef discussed how many people heard of disruptive protests at Middlebury College, but not about campus bias response teams suppressing free speech in the name of tolerance and avoiding offending college students:…
Northwestern Professor Shouted Down by Activists at Wellesley
Another free-thinker shouted down at a college campus; this time, it was at the liberal arts college Wellesley and it was Northwestern University’s Laura Kipnis who was the focus of the protesters’ ire: Nearly two…
University of Chicago Student Leaders Upset over White Nationalist’s Campus Visit
The student leaders demanded that the university president, Robert Zimmer, meet with them to discuss why he allowed white nationalist Richard Spencer to appear on the campus of the University of Chicago. Have these leaders…
Lawsuit Filed to Force University of Michigan to Hand Over Emails Discussing Trump
After University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel called Trump supporters hateful and the like at a vigil, a think tank filed a lawsuit (after their information records request was filed in November and has yet…