National Free Speech News & Commentary

Harvard Wins Injunction to Protect International Students

Josh Moody  May 23, 2025 1 min read

Josh Moody 
Inside Higher Ed

Excerpt: Less than a day after having its ability to host international students revoked by the federal government, Harvard University successfully sued the Trump administration to block the move. A judge granted a temporary restraining order late Friday morning.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Thursday afternoon that the Trump administration had stripped Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification in a letter that vaguely accused Harvard of a “failure to adhere to the law.”

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Is DEI Truly Dead at UVa?

Kate Hidalgo Bellows and Katherine May 21, 2025 1 min read

Kate Hidalgo Bellows and Katherine
Chronicle of Higher Education

Excerpt: In June 2020, as millions took to the streets to protest anti-Black racism, the president of the University of Virginia, James E. Ryan, created a small team with an ambitious agenda.

The university needed bold ideas, he told the new Racial Equity Task Force, and it needed them quickly.

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Harvard Researcher: the University Is “Totally Corrupted”

Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe May 20, 2025 1 min read

Christopher F. Rufo, Ryan Thorpe
City Journal

Excerpt: Omar Sultan Haque has spent 23 years at Harvard University. He is furious about what has happened within the school.

While the media have framed the recent fight between Harvard and President Donald Trump in partisan terms, Haque believes that the problem goes much deeper than political score-settling. As he rose through the ranks—from graduate student to postdoctoral fellow to medical researcher to faculty member at Harvard Medical School—Haque watched the university gradually abandon the pursuit of truth and replace it with left-wing racialism.

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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

Katie J.M. Baker May 18, 2025 1 min read

Katie J.M. Baker
New York Times

Excerpt: In late April, the Heritage Foundation dispatched a team to Israel to meet with power players in Israeli politics, including the country’s foreign and defense secretaries and the U.S. ambassador, Mike Huckabee.

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Harvard's discrimination problem runs deep. Are they willing to fix it?

Tal Fortgang of the Manhattan Institute May 17, 2025 1 min read

Tal Fortgang of the Manhattan Institute
Fox News

Excerpt: With the Trump administration threatening to cut off its federal support, Harvard recently released its long-awaited internal report detailing rampant national-origin discrimination on campus – especially against Israelis and Jews. The administration claims that Harvard is rotten to the bone, hollowed out by ideological one-sidedness and an emphasis on social-justice activism rather than genuine inquiry. The university has countered that while it is working on rooting out discrimination, the administration has "overreached" to target the substance of what is studied and taught.

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Is the University Of Austin Betraying Its Founding Principles?

Ellie Avishai May 16, 2025 1 min read

Ellie Avishai
Quillette

Excerpt: On 8 November 2021, the founders of the University of Austin (UATX) announced the launch of their new project—a school where students would receive “an education rooted in the pursuit of truth.” Unlike Ivy League universities, where “illiberalism has become a pervasive feature of campus life,” the school’s founding president declared, this would be a place “where intellectual dissent is protected and fashionable opinions are scrutinized.” On a web page titled, Our Principles, UATX pledges that it will “renew the mission of the university, and serve as a model for institutions of higher education by safeguarding academic freedom and promoting intellectual pluralism.”

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