by jpitney | Feb 29, 2024 | Cancel Culture, Higher Education
Robert P. George: The truth-seeking enterprise precludes the university from punishing the expression of a view on the ground that the ideas expressed are false or harmful. That is because such viewpoint restrictions, as I will call them, tend to hamper both the...
by jpitney | Oct 2, 2023 | Cancel Culture, Congress, Higher Education, House of Representatives
Kathryn Palmer at Inside Higher Ed: More than 450 cubic feet of material related to former congressman Elton Gallegly’s 26 years in office are available for in-person research at the Elton and Janice Gallegly Center for Public Service and Civic Engagement at...
by jpitney | Mar 7, 2022 | Cancel Culture, Higher Education
Emma Camp, a student at the University of Virginia, at NYT: I went to college to learn from my professors and peers. I welcomed an environment that champions intellectual diversity and rigorous disagreement. Instead, my college experience has been defined by strict...
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2022 | Cancel Culture, Free Speech, Public Opinion, Viewpoint Diversity, Youth
Eric Kaufmann has an article at City Journal titled “A Generational Threat to Free Expression.” Survey data from my new Manhattan Institute report, “The Politics of the Culture Wars in Contemporary America,” show the scale of the challenge. While the...
by jpitney | Dec 5, 2021 | Cancel Culture, Civic Education, Free Speech, Higher Education
The Bipartisan Policy Center has a new report titled “Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap.” From the executive summary: First, colleges and universities must address the perceived tension that pits academic freedom and freedom of expression against...
by jpitney | Sep 6, 2021 | Cancel Culture
From The Economist: Classical liberals believe in setting fair initial conditions and letting events unfold through competition—by, say, eliminating corporate monopolies, opening up guilds, radically reforming taxation and making education accessible with vouchers....
