Essays

The Rushdie Attack Underlines the Value of Teaching Challenging Books

Times Higher Education

August 26, 2022

Uncivilizing America: Recent Supreme Court decisions through the eyes of an immigrant 

Banished Blog

July 20, 2022

Creative Resistance: Authors are facing a new wave of book-banning. Now, some groups are trying to circumvent the censorship.

Banished Blog

April 14, 2022

The Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

Chronicle Review

February 25, 2022

Counter Speech with Speech, Not Suspension

Banished Blog

February 2, 2022

This Academic Year, I Won’t Be Using Trigger Warnings

Banished Blog

September 20, 2021

Cast Away from the Canon

Banished Blog

August 31, 2021

Judge To San Francisco School Board: Arnautoff's Murals Must Remain

Banished Blog

July 28, 2021

In India's Covid Crisis, Echoes of a Colonial Past

Washington Monthly

May 22, 2021

Does the Term "Latinx" Advance Social Justice?

Washington Monthly

May 1, 2021

A Third Way on the Place of Critical Race Theory in the Classroom

RealClear Education

March 29, 2021

Are Colleges and Universities Too Liberal? What the Research Says

Heterodox Academy Blog

October 21, 2020

When Students Are Afraid to Speak, We All Lose

RealClear Education

October 8, 2020

Activists want a high school mural removed. Should its impact today overshadow the artist's intentions?

CNN

June 10, 2019

Not A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: Why Left-Leaning Faculty Should Care About Threats to Free Expression on Campus

2018 FIRE Faculty Conference Paper

Cancel Culture: It's real and on the rise, on the left and the right

Banished Blog

July 24, 2022

Artist Invokes the Law to Save His Art

Banished Blog

May 4, 2022

The New Bibliophobia

Banished Blog

March 3, 2022

The Purpose of a University Isn't Truth. It's Inquiry.

Chronicle Review

February 10, 2022

How Do Kids Cope with Covid? Fun and Games.

Banished Blog

November 30, 2021

The Data Is In--Trigger Warnings Don't Work

Chronicle of Higher Education

September 15, 2021

Sisyphus Redux

Banished Blog

August 14, 2021

How to Fix Diversity and Equity: Ritualized regimes of political expression must be rejected

Chronicle Review

May 27, 2021

How Students Are Furthering Academe's Corporatization 

Chronicle Review

May 4, 2021

Don't Mistake Training for Education

Inside Higher Ed

April 29, 2021

Poverty of the Imagination: #DisruptTexts and the problem with teaching literature for social justice

Arc Digital

January 12, 2021

Is This Thing On? Classroom Recordings, "Reasonable Accommodations" and Academic Freedom

Inside Higher Ed

October 14, 2020

Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint 

The Conversation

August 5, 2020

Not a False Alarm: Partisan politics prevents those on the political left from seeing threats to campus free expression

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Inside Higher Ed

January 23, 2019

The Rise of "Bias Response Teams" on Campus

New Republic

March 30, 2016