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 | 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 | Sep 7, 2021 | Higher Education, Polarization
From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: Scholars have long been targeted for sanction by ideological adversaries. However, some worrying trends are emerging.[1] The current research reveals that since 2015 targeting incidents are on the rise and are...