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…
Topic: freedom of speech
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:…
‘Bracket of Shame’ Tracks Colleges with Poor Free Speech Policies
Apparently, there are enough colleges and universities to sort through who has the worst policy regarding the freedom of speech via a basketball bracket concept that is popular during March college basketball: Most probably don’t…
Academic Free Speech Freefall
It is one of the many ironies of our modern age that one of the places that the first amendment is designed to benefit—the academy—is so maladroit in using it. “What, exactly, is the tension…
New York District Court violates Reason Magazine’s Freedom of Speech
It’s unquestionable that the United States prides itself on the freedoms which establish its foundations, but it is also undeniable that our very own judicial system is just as guilty of violating these freedoms. On…