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The Right to Remain Silent SHARE Universities, corporations, nonprofit groups, and other institutions are increasingly pressured to take positions on political issues such as climate change, systemic racism, diversity, and a new election law in Georgia. Writing at Arc Digital, Spencer Case warns of the consequences of this politicization: If most major corporations, scientific organizations, universities, and other prominent entities are committed to political goals—especially the same political goals—then personal neutrality will be difficult or impossible to maintain. Many people...

The Fourteenth Amendment is limited by the First Amendment when it comes to holding schools liable for speech by teachers or students in academic debates with each other. For example, a federal appeals court ruled that the First Amendment barred a racial harassment lawsuit under the Fourteenth Amendment, over a professor’s racially-charged anti-immigration emails that offended Hispanic college staff. ( But the First Amendment doesn’t protect a racist policy officially adopted by a school system. The Fourteenth Amendment overrides any First Amendment right that officials carrying out a dis...