"We found no consensus about whether changing the name of our university is consistent with our shared values"...
My interview on the Can We Talk About It podcast with Debi Ghate....
“I was confident all along that a fair investigation would clear me. Yet I find myself not happy but rather upset that I was suspended and investigated in the first place. This never should have happened, and I hope that it doesn’t happen to anyone...
"A petition against the new name had stated it would create racial trauma."...
"two highly motivated groups … on either side of the issue, each with their own vision for change"...
“I will cease immediately all donations to the university and its student organizations”...
Attorney: “The city has a legal duty to preserve the Monument, not destroy it,”...
A completely unaccountable international board governing our political speech. It would be like handing over our rights to the U.N....
University of San Diego Provost: "we sought to determine whether the blog post at issue was protected by our policy on academic freedom. After a thorough legal review, it was determined that the expression was protected by that policy....
“I am a member of YAF at UVA and throughout this year we have experienced much pushback from our expressive activism.”...
“issues of race, empire, colonialism, and white supremacy in Shakespeare and the academy”...
My online lecture today for Scholars for Peace in the Middle East: Cancel culture has "morphed into an extremely dangerous targeting of people, attempts to destroy their lives, to so-called dox them, to harass them, to harass their employers, to harass people who know them...
"The administrators in charge of higher education in the UK have embraced some of the worst features of the Chinese Cultural Revolution."...
