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…
In an open letter to the University of Alabama, a trio of civil-rights advocates contend that the school erred earlier this year when it expelled a student who posted insensitive and racist videos on Instagram. The letter was authored by…
Concerned that the robust exercise of political speech could hurt its nonprofit status, Maine’s state university system is working on a new policy that appears to broadly bar employees from becoming involved in political activities on the universities’ time and…
The First Amendment protects the vilest forms of speech, whether it comes in the form of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville or cowardly racists scrawling “White Pride” on the side of a unique message board on the campus of the University of…
If Saturday Night Live were to do a cold open lampooning today’s crop of campus radicals and their intolerance for First Amendment-friendly campus speech, it might look something like the disruption that greeted Jonathan Zimmerman before his December 1 lecture at Western Washington University,…
He came, he triggered, he tussled. So went Lucian Wintrich’s evening at the University of Connecticut on Tuesday, where campus cops handcuffed and arrested him after a melee broke out during a speech he was attempting to deliver. The UConn College Republicans…
A recent article published in The Atlantic tells the story of Reed College‘s political-correctness police, Reedies Against Racism (RAR). A departure from most of what we see these days regarding student activism, “The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country”…
If heckling fails, hit ’em where it really hurts: the wallet. As Reason.com reports, that’s the strategy of the Columbia University Black Students’ Organization (BSO), which aims to silence the school’s College Republicans chapter and stop them from inviting squawkers of…
