Category: Free speech
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It’s DEI or die! for campus free speech
Worse than the Joe McCarthy era! What did that Stanford University administrator do when asked to restore order as law students disrupted an invited speaker? Instead of quelling the mob, she asked the speaker, a federal judge, “whether the juice was worth the squeeze”? I.E., do you really have to give your speech? Is anyone…
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Membership has its privileges
and responsibilities! Process matters. That’s what a Constitution is all about. It tells what government may do and — in the case of the Bill of Rights — what government may not. You may believe your President to be the arisen Christ but storming the nation’s capitol to prevent the transfer of executive authority to…
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Do kids today have a prayer?
God only knows! After the horror of Uvalde TX and, here in Madison, cafeteria brawls, 12-year-olds stealing cars, and teenage shoot-em-ups, this headline in this morning’s Wall Street Journal seems almost quaint: “Supreme Court rules coach can pray on field after game.” Is America great, or what! The administrators of the coach’s Bremerton WA school…
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“Doth protest too much?” University of Wisconsin delays free speech survey
by Jonathan Turley The survey has caused faculty and administrators to go into seems almost unhinged panic. … The survey asked students about self-censorship, opinions toward viewpoint diversity, campus climate, knowledge of the First Amendment and fears over expressing oneself. Such surveys have been conducted at other schools and found that most students feel chilled…
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Ask college kids about free speech? EEK!
We’re so offended! Progressives have it easy. Confronted with contrary facts or unassailable opinions, they need only cry “Koch Brothers,” “Republican talking points,” or play aggrieved victim. They can hound Condoleeza Rice from the speaker’s platform by claiming hurt feelings. Disrupt a conservative speaker at Yale Law School, then “object to the presence of police…