by Victor Davis Hanson. Political correctness has taken a toll. What do campus microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings, speech codes, and censorship have to do with higher learning? American universities want it both ways. They expect unquestioned subsidized support from the public, but also to operate in a way impossible for anyone else. ... MORE
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Was 2015 A Bad Year For Campus Free Speech?
by Robby Soave. Are easily-offended students and their allies within the university
bureaucracy ushering in a new era of censorship on American college
campuses? Even President Obama is worried that excessive political correctness is stifling legitimate debate at universities. Still, it’s hard to say whether the situation on campuses is truly ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Misleading And Using Blacks
Sacrificing blacks in the name of diversity. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ran headlong into the leftist meat grinder by questioning whether college admission of blacks with academic achievement levels significantly lower than the rest of the student body is beneficial to blacks. His question came up during oral arguments ... MORE
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To End Campus Tantrums, Treat Young People Like Adults
by Maria Thielman. The idea that a young person is someone to be protected, shielded, and
treated delicately at all costs is part of what’s behind universities
letting students force their professors out (as Yale just did)
because they “hurt our feelings,” and part of why people don’t know how
to debate anymore and just engage in shouting matches. ... MORE
Andy Puzder: The Importance Of Free Speech On Campus
The values of freedom. As a former student protester from the '60s, I believe there is no better place for open debate and free expression than the campus quad. I fully support America’s youth exploring outlandish ideas because I believe our values can withstand the comparisons and will be stronger because of them. But, what’s happening on our ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Squandering Resources On Education
Most college students do not belong in college. I am not by myself in this assessment. Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson said, "It's time to drop the college-for-all crusade," adding that "the college-for-all crusade has outlived its usefulness." Richard Vedder, professor emeritus of economics at Ohio University, reports that ... MORE
Terrorists Will Not Be Welcomed At One Christian College
No gun-free zone here. Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. urged students, staff and faculty at his Christian school to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon on campus to counter any copycat attack like the deadly rampage in California just days ago. "Let's teach them a lesson if they ever show up here," Falwell told an estimated 10,000 of ... MORE
Home Ownership Not The American Dream For Millennials
Has the American Dream become unattainable? Or has it just changed? Ask your parents what the American Dream meant to them growing up and you’ll probably find it differs from the ideals of millennials today. In fact, according to the Fusion 2016 Issues Poll, only 16 percent of people ages 18 to 35 believe the American Dream is still “very ... MORE
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How To Rescue Free Speech In American Academia
by Nat Hentoff. In last week’s column, I described how the national anti-free speech movement poses an imminent threat to freedom of expression in American academia. Those advocating for the anti-free speech movement attempt to interpret the “language of free speech” to their advantage so that it applies only to them, but not to ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: A Resurgence Of Intolerance
Why do donors contribute to indoctrination centers? Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators — such as at the University of Missouri recently — bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember ... MORE
David S. D'Amato: The Most Liberal Value - Free Speech
A free society tolerates words that hurt. Current attacks on free speech reveal progressivism as a uniquely American iteration of fascism that shares many of its historical and ideological roots. Recent events on American college campuses have prompted a debate on where we should draw the line that divides permissible from impermissible ... MORE
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Stephen Moore: The Grievance Generation
Whiny college students protest hurt feelings. Remember the campus unrest in the 1960s? Whether you agreed with the
students or not, they were protesting about things of great consequence —
like civil rights, or the military draft, or the Vietnam War. They had
chants like “hell no, we won’t go.” Those were the good old days. Now
we are ... MORE
Walter E Williams: The True Test Of Free Speech
Are most Americans hostile to liberty? Recent events at the University of Missouri, Yale University and some other colleges demonstrate an ongoing ignorance and/or contempt for the principles of free speech. So let's examine some of those principles by asking: What is the true test of one's commitment to free speech? Contrary to ... MORE
When Will They Ever Learn? The New Student Rebellion
by Walter Donway. When trespassers invade private property and refuse to leave until their “demands” are met, you call the police to have them evicted by all necessary means and arrested. That, of course, is what that Ivy League citadel of reasoned discourse, Princeton University should do, and do immediately, with the students who this week ... MORE
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Victor Davis Hanson: The University Gone Feral
Where PC intolerance trumps free speech. The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty. The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — call law enforcement if someone disparages ... MORE
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George Will: Freedom From Speech On American Campuses
The insulation of delicate snowflakes. Yale’s president, Peter Salovey, dealt with the Crisis of the
Distressing E-mail about Hypothetical Halloween Costumes about as you
would expect from someone who has risen to eminence in today’s academia.
He seems to be the kind of adult who has helped produce the kind of
students who are such ... MORE
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