Professors at tweedy Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts probably didn’t expect a full-scale Gen Z revolt to break out on the tiny, liberal arts school’s campus last fall when pedagogues proposed that the private college adopt a free speech declaration…
Right-wing Polish politician and professor Ryszard Legutko planned to lecture students and faculty at Vermont’s Middlebury College on April 17 regarding the topic of his recent book, The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, but college administrators pulled…
Lefty students at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts recently demanded that the school sack its most prominent professor, feminist bomb-thrower Camille Paglia, for her criticism of the #MeToo movement and for comments they consider to be transphobic. But in a…
On January 8, 2019, in a court decision that could double as the film treatment for a remake of National Lampoon’s Animal House, a New York judge upheld Syracuse University’s suspension of ten members of the Theta Tau fraternity who had taken…
Aiming to land a haymaker straight to the kisser of wanton indecency, a student group at the University of Notre Dame has called on university officials to institute a campus-wide Wi-Fi block on online porn. To make its case, the group,…
The battle over free speech raged in courtrooms, on college campuses, and on social media in 2018, with wedding cakes for same-sex couples and the federal government’s attack on sex workers taking center stage. In no particular order, are the…
In November 2017, campus police at Joliet Junior College (JCC) in Joliet, Illinois, hauled in Ivette Salazar for handing out leaflets on campus without permission. Salazar, a 24-year-old nursing student, sued on First Amendment grounds. The school recently settled the suit, marking…
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously wrote in a 1929 dissent that if any Constitutional principle is paramount, “it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the…
U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah recently introduced legislation that would force public colleges and universities to do away with any so-called free-speech zones — patches of campus property where some institutions of higher learning have sought to corral students…
Unlike scores of institutions of higher learning in the United States that have bowed to pressure to disinvite controversial speakers, the University of Chicago has proved itself a bulwark of free speech by rejecting calls to block far-right Machiavelli Steve…
