by jpitney | Feb 19, 2022 | Free Speech, Insurrection
Judge Amit Mehta: The nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill was a fierce advocate of free speech. But Mill understood that not all speech should be protected. In his work On Liberty, Mill wrote, “No one pretends that actions should be as free as...
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 | Nov 15, 2021 | Election Security, Free Speech, Internet, Journalism, Journalists, Russia, Social Media, Technology
From the Aspen Institute: The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder is making 15 recommendations to help government, private industry, and civil society advance solutions to and reduce the greatest harms in America’s urgent mis- and disinformation...
by jpitney | Oct 25, 2021 | Free Speech, Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams at RealClearEducation: Thanks to the largest data set ever compiled on student’s views toward free speech, we now know that students who attend the nation’s elite schools – those that purportedly thrive in the world of research, innovation and...
by jpitney | Oct 21, 2021 | Civil Rights, Debate, Free Speech, Higher Education
Michael Powell at NYT: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the geophysicist Dorian Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture this autumn. He seemed a natural choice, a scientific star who studies climate change and whether planets in distant solar...
