In this interview, professor Mark Crispin Miller, Ph.D., provides us with a startling example of a crackdown on academic freedom, with dire implications for free speech in America today. Ironically, it was his teaching students how to question propaganda, and to resist it, that brought on the curtailment of his academic freedom, after over 20 years of teaching that important subject at New York University. His experience at NYU in the fall of 2020 culminated in his suing 19 of his department colleagues for libel a case that has become a major flashpoint in the larger struggle to defend … Continue reading →
An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.
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Stanford University recently threatened a liberal law student’s ability to graduate over a satirical post to an email listserv aimed at the campus chapter of the Federalist Society.
If universities can sack tenured faculty without due process, it will set a dangerous precedent one that could ultimately be a death sentence for the profession, argues Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt.