North Dakota, a state not often in the national headlines, is making waves due to state lawmakers advancing a bill couched as reforming tenure in colleges and universities. Bill sponsor Rep. Mike Lefor called the…
Topic: freedom of speech
Preserving Academic Freedom at the University of Chicago
Perhaps when literary critic C.S. Lewis despaired of “omnipotent moral busybodies . . . who torment us for our own good,” he was anticipating the tendentious rants of members of the University of Chicago’s Students…
FIRE unveils challenge to ACLU on free speech activism
Move aside, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), there is a new free speech and First Amendment defender in town: the organization formerly known as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is rebranding as…
Ilya Shapiro resigns from Georgetown University
After a 122-day investigation into his tweets, Ilya Shapiro resigned as senior lecturer and executive director of Georgetown University Law Center’s Center for the Constitution. Georgetown University, a private Catholic university run by Jesuits, had…
Modern Day Brown Shirts Suppress Free Speech at Yale Law
As further confirmation that universities have devolved into islands of repression in a sea of freedom, some 120 Yale Law School students seriously disrupted a March 10th event. Sponsored by the Yale Federalist Society, the…
Five states withdraw from school boards group after inflammatory letter
A school board organization, which had rarely been heard of on a national scale, has made public enemies of parents and multiple states. The National School Board Association (NSBA) is now the focus of the…
School board group apologizes for calling parents’ protests ‘domestic terrorism’
Too little, too late for the National School Board Association (NBSA), which used inflammatory language to describe concerned parents at school board meetings. The group apologized for its letter to the Biden administration and said…
Campus Hate Speech and its Use as a Tool Against Opposing Views
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. “Everyone is in…
Academic blasts College Free Speech Survey results
A College Free Speech Survey, co-authored by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), RealClearEducation, research firm College Pulse and the libertarian Charles Koch Institute, claimed to find that free speech protections at America’s…
Many Top 25 Colleges Restrict Journalism on campuses
As much as liberal academics and the liberal media rail against President Donald Trump’s “fake news” monikor, there is a real threat to free speech and free press: liberal college and university campuses. As John…
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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