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Here’s a “first-aid kit” for an academic-freedom crisis, whatever your politics.

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Princeton historian Sean Wilentz and politics professor Keith E. Whittington have both been critical of Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project . Wilentz even penned an article...

President Biden on Friday ordered a 180-day study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, making good on a campaign-year promise to establish a bipartisan commission to examine the potentially explosive subjects of expanding the court or setting term limits for justices. The President acted under pressure from activists pushing for more seats to alter the ideological balance of the court after President Donald J. Trump appointed three justices, including one to a seat that Republicans had blocked...

AP Photo/Cliff Owen President Biden signed an executive order today which sets up a new commission to study changes to the Supreme Court, including the possibility of expanding/packing it. The full order is posted on the White House website. It creates a commission of 36 members all of whom are considered experts in the legal field. The group will have up to 180 days to submit a report which looks at specific reform proposals and which will include public comment. The full list of members is ...

Republican and Democrats have slammed Joe Bidens announcement They have said it is divisive, brainless, a radical left ploy and a power grab  Biden established commission to examine expanding the Supreme Court Friday Move would wipe out conservative majority on the bench formed under Trump  Mitch McConnell said it was more evidence of the far-lefts influence on Biden  Mitt Romney said it would forever diminish institutions at our foundation  Rep. Marsha Blackburn said Democrats will destroy...

Biden Creating Commission to Study Expanding the Supreme Court The commission will also examine other potential changes such as term limits for justices. Progressives are pushing President Biden to add seats to balance the court’s conservative majority. Progressives have urged President Biden to consider adding seats to the Supreme Court after President Donald J. Trump solidified the court’s conservative majority with his three appointments.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times A...

UPDATED: March 11, 2021 at 2:15 p.m. Eighteen Harvard affiliates — including Cornel R. West ’74, Steven A. Pinker, and Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. — signed on as founding members of a new nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to defending academics’ freedom of expression. The Academic Freedom Alliance, which officially launched Monday, arose out of conversations among professors at Princeton University about free speech on college campuses. By invitation, 17 current Harvard faculty and...

© William Thomas Cain/Getty Images Students at Princeton University in New Jersey. The alliance arose out of discussions among some Princeton faculty over how to counter what they see as growing intolerance of differing viewpoints. Cornel West and Laura Kipnis join alliance designed to help educators speak and publish without fear of sanction. Cornel West, Laura Kipnis and Stephen Pinker are among about 200 scholars from across the US who on Monday launched the Academic Freedom Alliance, a gro...

Around 200 scholars from across the country have formed the Academic Freedom Alliance, which has a mission to help college educators “speak, instruct, and publish without fear of sanction, bullying, punishment, or persecution.” Launched Monday, the non-profit organization arose out of discussions among some Princeton University faculty members over how to counter what they see as growing intolerance of differing viewpoints. Members will pay an annual fee of $50 if they are tenure...