free speech

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• 3/21/19
  

  Trump's Executive Order Censors Free Speech on College Campuses

  by Ed Simon

  The House Un-American Activities Committee and the real intent of Trump's "free speech" executive order. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/15/19
  

  Who’s the snowflake? We tenured professors, that’s who

  by Anita Bernstein

  Our freedom to say what we want is not only tolerated but celebrated.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/2/19
  

  Trump promises executive order that could strip colleges of funding if they don’t ‘support free speech’

  President Trump said March 2 he intends to sign an executive order mandating that colleges take steps to guarantee free speech to get federal research grants. 

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• 1/5/18
  

  Free Speech on Campus: Interviews with Carla Hesse and Jonathan Scott Holloway

  Is free speech endangered on college campuses today? 

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• SOURCE: LikeTheDew
  11-12-17
  

  Cheerleaders taking a knee aren’t dishonoring the flag

  by David B. Parker

  Why the president of Kennesaw State University might want to reconsider his criticism.

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• 11-19-17
  

  The Intellectual Arrogance of Suppressing Campus Speech

  by Richard L. Cravatts

  “Don’t tell me about facts. I don’t need no facts.”

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10-2-17 (accessed)
  

  Flip-Flopping on Free Speech

  by Jill Lepore

  The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.

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• 9-3-17
  

  Why Campus Free Speech Laws Won’t Free Campus Speech

  by Adam Laats

  That’s the lesson of the anti-evolution campaigns of the 1920s.

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• SOURCE: Your Daily Record
  6-23-17
  

  Free speech to be front and center at Gettysburg battle anniversary

  One group set up a Facebook page: "Support America and Her History, Rally! If You Hate US, Leave!"

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6-13-17
  

  Free Speech Loses Ground as Harvard Retracts Offers to Admitted Students

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  By rejecting the offending students, the university reinforced the idea that students shouldn’t offend one another.

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• 5-26-17
  

  Drew Gilpin Faust discusses free speech in Harvard commencement address (video)

  Why is free speech important at universities?  Why is it under attack now?  How can we nurture it? 

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• 5-2-17
  

  Free Speech Is Not Dying in Berkeley

  by Andrea S. Johnson

  It simply never existed in the form we imagined.

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• 4-26-17
  

  Berkeley HAS Violated Ann Coulter’s Free Speech Rights

  by Richard L. Cravatts

  What Berkeley has done is emblematic of a serious problem.

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• 4-26-17
  

  Berkeley Has NOT Violated Ann Coulter’s Free Speech Rights

  by Robert Cohen  

  Her claims are specious.

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• 3-8-17
  

  Free Expression on Campus: What the Authors of 4 Books Are Saying About This Hot Controversy

  by Luther Spoehr

  How freedom of speech becomes freedom from speech.

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• 1-8-17
  

  Donald Trump’s Appalling Hypocrisy about Free Speech

  by Robert Cohen  

  He’s no Mario Savio.

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  9-29-16
  

  Courage and free speech

  by Timothy Garton Ash

  Throughout human history there have been individuals who have been ready to risk everything for their beliefs.

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• SOURCE: Forward
  9-20-16
  

  Berkeley Reinstates ‘Zionism-is-Colonialism’ Course After Free Speech Outcry

  The University of California Berkeley has reinstated a student-led course called “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” after public outcry over its suspension last week.

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• 1-13-16
  

  Review of Donna T. Haverty-Stacke’s “Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since The Age of FDR”

  by Murray Polner

  A fascinating look at the group of intellectuals who pledged allegiance to Trotsky and the federal government's campaign to disrupt their party.

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• 12-8-15
  

  The Sad Demise of the Commitment to Free Speech at America’s Universities

  by James C. Cobb

  What the students at Yale, Amherst and other places could learn from C. Vann Woodward.