Free Speech Tag

Middlebury College Student Govt Demands Students be Able to Approve Campus Speakers

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 27, 2019 36 Comments

Middlebury College in Vermont has a recurring problem. When conservative speakers come to campus, all hell breaks loose. Now the student government has proposed a solution. They want the right to vet speakers before they come to campus in order to assure that the speaker's values match those of the campus community.

Student Activists Outraged as Williams College Tries to Adopt Pro-Free Speech Policy

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 25, 2019 26 Comments

Williams College in Massachusetts is trying to embrace the free speech policy put forth by the University of Chicago. It's a widely respected position on the issue which has even been endorsed by FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education).

https://twitter.com/DFAaction/status/1103761812179292160

Shutuppery Liberals Level ‘Incitement’ Allegations to Silence Conservatives

Posted by Stacey Matthews on April 20, 2019 43 Comments

Democrats desperately want people to believe that Republicans are criticizing them in order to deliberately put them in harm's way. If they can get enough people to believe this, they can simply silence all dissenting opinion as "incitement."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_gphb2Qs7Q#action=share

Socialist Students at U. Buffalo Oppose Speech by ‘War Criminal’ Condoleezza Rice

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 19, 2019 3 Comments

"personally approved the CIA’s use of waterboarding on prisoners"...

Eugene Kontorovich photo used with permission

Anti-Israel activists shout down legal scholar’s lecture on legality of anti-BDS laws

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2019 17 Comments

Eugene Kontorovich is a brilliant legal scholar formerly with Northwestern University Law School, who recently joined George Mason University's Scalia School of Law. Kontorovich's expertise includes international law, as well as free speech. His lecture The Legal Case for Israel is a must watch video.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1116648621292679168

Masked Protester Throws Liquid Substance at Conservative Speaker at UMKC

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 13, 2019 18 Comments

Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire gave a speech at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) this week. Student protesters turned the event into a circus, and a masked figure even attempted to throw liquid, initially believed to be bleach, onto Knowles and was arrested.

FIRE Releases Statement About U. Arizona Students Charged for Harassing Border Patrol Agents

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 03, 2019 8 Comments

"guiding principles should be restated"...

Berkeley Law School Dean Says Trump’s Free Speech Executive Order is Unconstitutional

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 02, 2019 10 Comments

"order is so vague and ambiguous, it makes compliance by colleges and universities extremely difficult"...

U. Arizona Students to be Charged After Disrupting Border Patrol Event With Shouts of “Murder Patrol”

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 31, 2019 17 Comments

Last week, two border patrol agents were speaking to a small group of students at the University of Arizona when the event was interrupted by a student calling them the KKK and "murder patrol." She was eventually joined by other students, and now they're facing charges.

My visit to the White House in support of campus free speech

Posted by Pietro S. Geraci on March 29, 2019 4 Comments

I was honored and humbled to be present at the White House last week to witness President Trump sign an executive order designed to protect free speech in higher education. Public colleges and universities must now stop trampling upon students’ First Amendment rights, or risk federal cuts to their research dollars. I hope the order goes a long way in securing students’ freedom of expression.

Beloit College Cancels Speech After Student Protesters Block Stage With Furniture

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 29, 2019 5 Comments

"hosted by Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative student organization"...

New Law in Kentucky is a Huge Win for Free Speech on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 28, 2019 0 Comments

“This legislation champions the rights of students across the political spectrum"...

Florida Republican Introduces Bill to Protect Free Speech on Campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on March 24, 2019 0 Comments

"the Free Right to Expression in Education (FREE) Act"...

Cambridge University’s Ugly Failure to Protect Free Speech, Jordan Peterson Edition

Posted by Charles Lipson on March 22, 2019 19 Comments

The suppression of free speech on campus is not just an American problem. This week, Cambridge University, one of the world’s oldest and greatest, showed it is just as feckless as Yale, Berkeley, and Middlebury. Cambridge decided to cancel an invited speech by Jordan Peterson, a prominent psychology professor at the University of Toronto. Portland State couldn’t have done it better.

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