Campus free speech remains in peril in America, despite university reforms
A growing number of US students support violent protest to stop a controversial campus speech from going ahead, according to a new survey.
A growing number of US students support violent protest to stop a controversial campus speech from going ahead, according to a new survey.
The Presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn all offered technically correct explanations of how First Amendment rules should apply on their campuses. But within the wider debate about the health of American academia, their comments were incendiary.
The party that once mocked Tony Blair’s nanny statism has itself become deeply prescriptive.
Non-crime hate incidents are a perfect example of the justice system refusing to remain politically non-partisan. Liberals must reject this creeping coercion.
Feminist philosopher Kathleen Stock is set to speak tonight at a hotly anticipated event organised by the Oxford Union, which prides itself as “the last bastion of free speech”.
Oxford Union has stood by Professor Kathleen Stock as have a clutch of big faculty names.
Tempting though it may be, free speech advocates shouldn’t descend upon the morally righteous with the same unforgiving, merciless opprobrium with which they wield the cat on others.
Other UK universities are rediscovering the value of debate in a democracy. But Edinburgh is still failing to counter the cult of censorship.
A university is nothing without free discourse and a rich intellectual life – a fact lost on many students.
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