Commentary: The Moral Center Is Fighting Back on Elite College Campuses

Commentary: The Moral Center Is Fighting Back on Elite College Campuses

April 16, 2023 1 min read

by David French, The New York Times

The extremist attacks on free speech (from right and left) degrade American democracy, and those attacks are especially acute on college campuses, whether they come from angry left-wing students who shout down conservative speakers or from vengeful right-wing legislators.

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Commentary: Thoughts on the “Heckler’s Veto”

Commentary: Thoughts on the “Heckler’s Veto”

April 14, 2023 1 min read

by Hank Reichman, Academe Blog

Permitting speakers to be shouted down, allowing demonstrators to block access to speeches, or failing to provide sufficient security to ensure that a speech will be delivered...

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For Two Years, Harvard ‘Intellectual Vitality Committee’ Has Quietly Discussed Campus Culture

For Two Years, Harvard ‘Intellectual Vitality Committee’ Has Quietly Discussed Campus Culture

April 14, 2023 1 min read

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Princetonians for Free Speech April 14, 2023

118 Former Higher Education Presidents Launch Initiative to Combat Educational Censorship

April 14, 2023 1 min read

PEN America Press Release

Today, PEN America launched a new initiative alongside more than a hundred former higher education presidents and system heads to defend higher education against a barrage of state legislation and policies that seek to restrict campus free expression and college and university autonomy.

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Commentary: New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom

Commentary: New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom

April 12, 2023 1 min read

by Steven Pinker and Bertha Madras, Boston Globe

We have joined with 50 colleagues to create a new Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. It’s not about us. For many years we have each expressed strong and often unorthodox opinions with complete freedom and with the support, indeed warm encouragement, of our colleagues, deans, and presidents.

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Commentary: College Students Have Something to Say. It’s Just Not What You’d Expect.

April 06, 2023 1 min read

by Jonathan Malesic, New York Times

In the debate over free speech and social justice, commentators on the right and the “heterodox” left often claim that college students are all either stridently liberal or cowed into silence by those who are.

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