Princeton Free Speech News & Commentary

8 at Princeton Assail 'False' Portrayal of Prof as Racist

October 27, 2021 1 min read

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Klainerman-Eisgruber Email Exchange on Princeton Bureaucrats Smearing Katz as Racist

October 11, 2021 10 min read

Editor’s note:

Below is the exchange of emails between Professor Sergiu Klainerman and Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber about the administration’s attacks on now-fired Professor Joshua Katz for his article about racial issues on campus. Professor Klainerman provided the emails to PFS.

From: seri@math.princeton.edu<seri@math.Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2021 8:26 AM
To: Christopher L. Eisgruber<eisgruber@Princeton.EDU>; Deborah A. Prentice <predebb@princeton.edu>; Gene A. Jarrett <gjarrett@princeton.edu>
Subject: RRR complaint


Dear President Eisgruber:

I am writing to inform you that together with a group of colleagues, I filed a complaint last week to the online DEI system, requesting an investigation of those responsible for the official university webpage “To Be Known and Heard: Systemic Racism and Princeton University” and the accompanying video in which Professor Joshua Katz was vilified and misquoted. These were mandatory materials that all incoming first-year students had to read and watch. In addition to the violations of the University’s Regulations 1.1.5 and 1.1.1, detailed in our complaint, there are, we believe, three additional and important academic issues involved in this incident.

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FREE SPEECH RANKING PUTS PRINCETON LAST IN THE IVY LEAGUE

September 23, 2021 3 min read

A ranking, based on a survey of students, released today by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), put Princeton dead last in the Ivy League and a dismal 134 out of 159 colleges and universities surveyed.
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PRINCETON MUST ACT ON ITS TERRIBLE FREE SPEECH RANKING

September 23, 2021 4 min read

PFS Editorial

Two recent developments show free speech is in serious trouble at Princeton. This week, the “2021 College Free Speech Ranking,” published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), placed Princeton dead last in the Ivy League on free speech and...

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PFS Podcast: John Rose on free speech in his college classroom

September 21, 2021 1 min read

John Rose, associate director of the Arete Initiative at Duke University’s Kenan Institute for Ethics, joined us on our latest podcast to discuss his recent Wall Street Journal column about how he nurtures true civil discourse in his classroom and what he has learned from the experience.
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Princeton Indoctrination Begins Before Classes Even Start

September 08, 2021 1 min read

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