National Free Speech News & Commentary

By Zach Greenberg
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Excerpt: A college suspends a professor for not adhering to “prescribed messaging,” imposes a gag order on him, and demands he say only what it tells him to say or nothing at all. That may sound like a dystopian novel, but it’s actually happening at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science — an American institution of higher education that promises faculty free speech, but apparently has no idea what that means.

By Harrison Rosenthal
Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Excerpt: In a recent turn of events, FIRE’s understanding of actions by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine regarding recommendations from a diversity, equity, and inclusion task force have come into question.

By Pete Peterson
Fox News

Excerpt: The scenes of ideological intolerance have become all too familiar to Americans. Law students shouting down a federal judge at Stanford Law School. College students protesting the new president of the University of Florida, former Republican U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse. Many of our most prestigious colleges and universities have been reduced to ideological monocultures – both inside and outside the classroom.

By Josh Moody
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: A visiting history professor at New College of Florida who criticized NCF’s Board of Trustees and interim president—as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’s efforts to reshape higher education in the state—is out after the administration decided not to renew his contract, Miami New Times reported.

By Ryan Quinn
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: The reports that the University of North Carolina School of Medicine rejected its diversity, equity and inclusion task force’s recommendations also were, according to new statements from the university, exaggerated. Perhaps greatly.

By The Editorial Board
Wall Street Journal Opinion

Excerpt: Bureaucracies pushing the political DEI agenda—diversity, equity and inclusion—have proliferated in higher education, becoming speech censors and racial hiring enforcers. The bullying has courted a needed backlash, and the latest comes from Texas.