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…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…