Speech
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I Teach a Class on Free Speech. My Students Can Show Us the Way Forward.
Free speech is very hard to get right, especially on campus — as has been evident all fall at the…
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World
The Fall of Penn’s President Brings Campus Free Speech to a Crossroads
Before the Israel-Hamas war, universities were already engulfed in debates over what kinds of speech are acceptable.
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Politics
Training People to Think of Themselves as Weak Is a Form of Abuse
The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been roundly condemned for arguing…
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Politics
Campus Speech Codes Should Be Abolished
The tentative, lawyerly answers given last week by three university presidents at a House committee hearing investigating the state of…
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Politics
What Is the Real Meaning of ‘Pro-Life’?
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The Fallout From the College Presidents’ Antisemitism Testimony
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Talk to Me
At the risk of sounding mawkishly positive, I think I’ve discovered a cheap, simple fix for our fraying social, emotional…
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Politics
The Conversations About the War in Gaza We Ought to Be Having
The conflict in Israel and Palestine has thrown American campuses and society into turmoil. We are both deans of public…
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World
Columbia University Postpones a Fund-Raiser as Divisions Over War Deepen
Columbia has said it should be a space for “moral and intellectual conversations” about the Israel-Hamas war, but as those…
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Politics
Turmoil Over Student Support for Hamas
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