National Free Speech News & Commentary

Do Campus Diversity Offices (DEI) Help Or Harm Diversity?

Do Campus Diversity Offices (DEI) Help Or Harm Diversity?

March 29, 2023 1 min read

by Michael Poliakoff, Forbes Magazine

In the current legislative session, five state legislatures will review bills that seek to limit or abolish offices on public university campuses known by the catch-all acronym “DEI.” 

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Is DEI Destroying Free Speech on Campus?

Is DEI Destroying Free Speech on Campus?

March 27, 2023 1 min read

PFS Editorial

This is the title of a recently published empirical study in The Missing Data Depot on Substack.  The fact that administrative bloat has far exceeded the growth of faculty and students in numbers and power on American campuses is widely acknowledged.

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DeSantis’s Higher-Education Strategy Needs Adjustment

March 16, 2023 1 min read

Stanley Kurtz, National Review

I know of no Republican governor from Ronald Reagan’s era in California to the present with a more impressive education record than Ron DeSantis. As Rich Lowry puts it, DeSantis isn’t just building a dike to contain the woke tide, he’s aggressively rolling that tide back.

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Nadine Strossen: An inspiration to college students and a true non-partisan

Nadine Strossen: An inspiration to college students and a true non-partisan

March 09, 2023 6 min read

by Leslie Spencer

Nadine Strossen, a liberal feminist and civil liberties activist, led the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, the first woman to do so. 

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Davidson College Affirms Free Speech

Davidson College Affirms Free Speech

March 08, 2023 1 min read

Last week, faculty at Davidson College affirmed their commitment to free expression on campus by approving their own version of the Chicago Principles. It’s a step that the pro-free-speech organization Davidsonians for Freedom of Thought and Discourse (DFTD) has been promoting for five years and a major free-speech milestone for the college.
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President, law school dean apologize to Judge Kyle Duncan for ‘disruption’ to his speech

March 07, 2023 1 min read

Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law School (SLS) Dean Jenny Martinez sent a letter of apology to Judge Kyle Duncan on Saturday after his public complaint regarding the treatment he received during a speech he gave on Thursday at SLS.
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