Universities have struggled with deciding whether to return students to campus this fall for in-person classes. Each institution can make its own best decision. It would help, however, if the administrators making the call...
It is a sad irony that freedom of speech is under threat on college campuses. From Galileo onward, history is replete with examples of what happens when the inquiry that leads to discovery is...
Social media mobs. Cancel culture. Campus speech policing. These are all part of life in today’s America. Freedom of expression is in crisis. Truly open discourse—the debates, exchange of ideas and arguments on which the...
Many lament the decline in the teaching of civics and history that we are seeing in our schools. According to a recent survey of core curriculums of 1,100 colleges and universities by the American...
The pandemic has accelerated a financial crisis already in the making at many […]
Recently, Harper’s Magazine published an open letter signed by 153 academics, public intellectuals, and journalists, ranging from J.K. Rowling to David Brooks.[1] The three-paragraph letter warns against the illiberal “vogue for public shaming” that...
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