by jpitney | May 1, 2025 | civic virtue, Civility
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Being community-focused, knowing one’s neighbors, and being helpful to others should be instinctual and a common part of our daily lives rather than occasional and worthy of praise. While it is undoubtedly not the case that we have to be best...
by jpitney | Feb 10, 2024 | Debate, Deliberation, Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams at AEI: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s (FIRE) 2024 free expression data which captures over fifty-five thousand voices from 254 colleges and universities powerfully illustrates these critically important gender-based differences...
by jpitney | Oct 31, 2023 | Free Speech, Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams at The Messenger: While many students want to condemn the violence and speak out against Hamas, or talk about the real troubles faced by the Palestinians, they are afraid of administrators, of being “canceled” or harmed. Student groups like Students...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2023 | Civil Rights, Conservative', Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Difference that drives progress is a spectacular ideal for higher education, but far too many schools are failing in practice. At Columbia University, a DEI office explicitly states that they “are committed to centering race in our pursuit of...
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2023 | Conservative', Higher Education
Samuel J. Abrams at AEI: The time is now to invest in conservative graduate students who want to build up our communities and institutions. The Harvard program in Inequality and Social Policy did not develop overnight, nor did it have an influence immediately....
