Essays

DEI Goals Are Worthy. Campus DEI Bureaucracies Fail Them.

The Point of Education is Not to Reduce Harm

Dark Times for Academic Freedom in the Sunshine State

Most of All, I Am Offended as a Muslim

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

Artist Invokes the Law to Save His Art

The New Bibliophobia

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

How Do Kids Cope with Covid? Fun and Games.

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

Sisyphus Redux

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

How Students Are Furthering Academe's Corporatization 

Don't Mistake Training for Education

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

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

Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint 

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

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The Rise of "Bias Response Teams" on Campus

Three Cheers for the Faculty!

The Futility of Trigger Warnings

Yes, DEI Can Erode Academic Freedom

The Rushdie Attack Underlines the Value of Teaching Challenging Books

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

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

The Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

Counter Speech with Speech, Not Suspension

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

Cast Away from the Canon

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

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

Does the Term "Latinx" Advance Social Justice?

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

Are Colleges and Universities Too Liberal? What the Research Says

When Students Are Afraid to Speak, We All Lose

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

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