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An “academic freedom” forum at Hamline provoked significant backlash for the selection of panelists who were almost uniformly not in favor of robust academic freedom.
We are deeply concerned by the cancellation of a previously approved panel at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association over vague and subjective concerns that the panelists’ views on biological sex would cause “harm.”
Jonathan Rieder spent his entire scholarly career researching racial conflict and the language we use to discuss race until Barnard College canceled one of his courses because of his approach to teaching about race.
San Francisco State University is investigating a history professor for showing a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad while teaching a lesson on the history of the Islamic world after a student filed a complaint.
"Gonzalez is a massively important case about a specific application of section 230, but it’s not the massively important case about big tech that Justice Thomas has been clamoring for the Justices to take up.” — Professor Stephen Vladeck