Woke, Cancel Culture, University Professors and Free Speech Debate on College Campus

If we all spoke circumspectly and wisely all the time, who would even need free-speech policies? (2022)

Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE -... (2024)

Kieran Bhattacharya's First Amendment lawsuit can proceed, a court said. (2021)

Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever se... (2022)

Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself. (2021)

College Pulse, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and RealClearEducation have released the first ever College Free Speech Rankings, a c... (2021)

Let’s make sure my cancellation is the last. That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob. (2021)

By Anne Applebaum Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new nor... (2021)

First Amendment freedoms continue to be tested on U.S. college campuses as higher education institutions strive to achieve goals that can occasiona... (2018)

New poll shows they have mixed views on First Amendment issues. (2018)

“Reed is just one college—and a small one at that. But the freshman revolt against RAR could be a blueprint for other campuses. If the “most libe... (2018)

Time Magazine, 2016: "The school believes they prevent the 'free exchange of ideas' In a letter, the incoming class at the University of Chicag... (2017)

Despite calls for their ouster, public university professors who utter offensive things enjoy free speech protection. But a scholar argues for anot... (2018)

Ask any teacher about teaching about a controversial topic, and most will tell you to avoid it at any cost. Now is the time to teach students ho... (2018)

300 Words a Minute, and Going Nowhere: High School Debate Today. "The world of high school debate is often portrayed as a refuge of the budding br... (2017)

As the one-year anniversary of the tragedy in Charlottesville nears, we asked the presidents of Bowdoin, Elon and the University of Washington whet... (2018)

Though largely political and symbolic, the campus free speech order that President Trump issued matters because it ties millions of federal researc... (2019)

There’s a growing call for diversity on campus. And it’s not all about demographics—there’s a new push toward making classrooms inviting to a diver... (2019)

In the five years following Gamergate, sites like YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter shifted the power dynamics between student and teacher. The harassme... (2019)

Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French iden... (2021)

A survey examines how the college experience changes – or doesn't change – students' political views. (2020)

A new report finds a majority of students feel they can't express their opinions on campus, especially when they are in the ideological minority an... (2020)

The findings from the first-ever rankings of the free speech climates at 55 of America’s largest and most prestigious college campuses. (2020)