Chancellor Martin and Professor Lee Epstein unpack free speech policies on campus In the last year, university administrators nationwide have come under fire for their handling of campus protests. On Wednesday, Sep. 4, WashU Chancellor Andrew Martin shared his perspective. When asked a similar questi...
College campuses are not experiencing a crisis of free speech — but politically active students have complicated the landscape, according to a new report on the issue from PEN America. The report was a response to President Donald Trump's March 2019 executive order on free speech, declaring ...
Let’s join each other in this battle against all bigotry. The free speech issue has to be, as you say, evenly applied, but more importantly, perhaps is the step that we need to take before we get there, which is to find out on what terrain and through what arguments is it being u...
National Free Speech News & Commentary Commentary: The Unholy Alliance: How college administrators and students unite to silence speakers February 12, 2025 1 min read Sean Stevens and Greg Lukianoff The Eternally Radical Idea Excerpt: We’ve both written a lot about how hostility to freedom of...
Free speech is very much in today’s headlines, especially with the outraged demands for technology companies to banish — or not — from their platforms speech they consider incitements to violence or hateful. But the greater danger may be the hostility within our colleges and universities to ...
Why is it that when we talk about issues of free speech on college campuses, it always seems to be an issue of sensitive liberal youth? ” But when you put it into context, you have to ask: Which is more dangerous, a minority of maniacal students who act inappropriately in public space...
But freedom of speech is often not recognized in the one place where it ought to be respected the most: A college campus in the USA. Today many universities simply refuse to recognize First Amendment rights until they are forced to do so by a court. At Radford University, where this blog...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The fight over racial equity and free speech on Wisconsin college campuses is intensifying, mirroring a national battle as Republicans work to close campus diversity offices and demand students and faculty treat conservative speakers with respect. ...
If you want to understand the deplorable condition of free speech on college campuses today, you need look no further than what happened recently at George Washington University here in the nation’s capital. A recognized campus conservative group, Young America’s Foundation (full disclosure: I ...
College Pulse and the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, have released the first ever College Free Speech Rankings, a comprehensive look into the student experience of free speech on their campuses.