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More ‘Mallard Fillmore’
For the , Mallard Fillmore focuses on the problem of campus speech codes. In recent months, as the Larry Summers, Ward Churchill, and Columbia MEALAC department controversies have dominated the news, I think we are beginning to reach a “tipping point” of public awareness on the problems on our campuses. With the release of a demonstrating the overwhelming ideological dominance of the left in university faculties, there is little question that Americans will increasingly set their sights on reforming the . As we have often said, ֭’s goal is to create a true marketplace of ideas rather than replace one form of unsustainable indoctrination with another.
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Texas A&M to philosophy professor: Nix Plato or be reassigned
Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson has a choice: Drop readings related to race and gender — including ones by Plato — from his course, or face reassignment.
Morgan State says cut the cameras, stop the presses
Morgan State muzzles its own student press, banning interviews with faculty and filming in public spaces unless admins say otherwise. But that's placing a prior restraint on the fourth estate, and a violation of the First Amendment.
The worst of both worlds for campus free speech
The biggest threat to speech used to come from within higher ed. Now it’s the government.
Duke shows what not to do when feds come knocking
Imposing a restraint — even an implicit one — on what employees can say to the media makes Duke a liar, belying its posturing as a university committed to open discourse.