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Student Activism Is Integral to the Mission of Academe

Chronicle Review

April 2, 2024

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Why We Wrote an Amicus Brief to Contest the Stop WOKE Act

Washington Monthly

July 12, 2023

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Conservative Attacks on Higher Ed Are Attacks on Democracy

Chronicle Review

April 13, 2023

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Three Cheers for the Faculty!

Banished Blog

March 2, 2023

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The Futility of Trigger Warnings

Persuasion

February 17, 2023

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Yes, DEI Can Erode Academic Freedom

Chronicle Review

February 6, 2023

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The Rushdie Attack Underlines the Value of Teaching Challenging Books

Times Higher Education

August 26, 2022

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

Banished Blog

July 20, 2022

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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

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The Truth and Nothing but the Truth?

Chronicle Review

February 25, 2022

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Counter Speech with Speech, Not Suspension

Banished Blog

February 2, 2022

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

Banished Blog

September 20, 2021

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Cast Away from the Canon

Banished Blog

August 31, 2021

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

Banished Blog

July 28, 2021

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

Washington Monthly

May 22, 2021

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Does the Term "Latinx" Advance Social Justice?

Washington Monthly

May 1, 2021

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

RealClear Education

March 29, 2021

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Are Colleges and Universities Too Liberal? What the Research Says

Heterodox Academy Blog

October 21, 2020

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When Students Are Afraid to Speak, We All Lose

RealClear Education

October 8, 2020

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

CNN

June 10, 2019

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

2018 FIRE Faculty Conference Paper

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Colleges Are Cracking Down on Free Speech in the Name of 'Inclusion'

The Daily Beast

February 17, 2024

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Amicus Brief in support of Plaintiffs Against the Stop WOKE Act

Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

June 23, 2023

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DEI Goals Are Worthy. Campus DEI Bureaucracies Fail Them.

Chronicle Review

March 15, 2023

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The Point of Education is Not to Reduce Harm

Chronicle Review

February 23, 2023

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Dark Times for Academic Freedom in the Sunshine State

Persuasion

February 10, 2023

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Most of All, I Am Offended as a Muslim

Chronicle Review

December 29, 2022

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

Banished Blog

July 24, 2022

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Artist Invokes the Law to Save His Art

Banished Blog

May 4, 2022

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The New Bibliophobia

Banished Blog

March 3, 2022

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

Chronicle Review

February 10, 2022

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How Do Kids Cope with Covid? Fun and Games.

Banished Blog

November 30, 2021

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

Chronicle Review

September 15, 2021

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Sisyphus Redux

Banished Blog

August 14, 2021

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

Chronicle Review

May 27, 2021

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How Students Are Furthering Academe's Corporatization 

Chronicle Review

May 4, 2021

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Don't Mistake Training for Education

Inside Higher Ed

April 29, 2021

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

Arc Digital

January 12, 2021

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

Inside Higher Ed

October 14, 2020

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Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint 

The Conversation

August 5, 2020

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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

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The Rise of "Bias Response Teams" on Campus

New Republic

March 30, 2016

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