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PALESTINE FREE SPEECH EXCEPTION
The school relieved them of their teaching assistant positions after they sent a pro-Palestinian message to students—an increasingly common, troubling breach of academic freedom.
Robert McCoy studies history and politics at the University of Virginia. He can be found on Twitter @_rmccoy.
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HEAVY HANDED
A Pennsylvania community college became the newest flashpoint in the free speech wars, after a simple union membership drive ended with multiple arrests.
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CONSERVATIVE JOURNALISM FACTORY
Newly released documents show how the university’s administrators repeatedly caved to pressure from politically powerful conservative influences.
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CANCEL CULTURE
The thing that Republicans say isn’t happening, in fact, happened to one educator for reading the book, “My Shadow Is Purple,” to her fifth grade class.
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WHERE DISSENT GOES TO DIE
A professor at New College was dumped after criticizing the school’s takeover by conservative activists.
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WORD POWER
CUNY Law student Fatima Mohammed was accused of “hate speech” after speaking at her school’s commencement ceremony. But it was her own free speech that was undermined.
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MORAL PANIC
A public university is trying to impose a morality requirement on free expression. That’s not how the Constitution works.
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CANCELLED BY THE ANTI-CANCEL CULTURERS
Dr. Samuel Joeckel says Palm Beach Atlantic University officials used “smokescreens” to justify firing him, after a parent complained he was “indoctrinating students.”
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CANCEL CULTURE
Dr. Samuel Joeckel has been a popular English professor at the Christian conservative Palm Beach Atlantic University for two decades. Now he’s accused of “indoctrinating students.”
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FREE SPEECH, MUZZLED
An underreported campus speech scandal is how easy (and common) it is for administrators to punish or terminate whistleblower instructors.