A 12-year-old student in Colorado was kicked out of class for sporting a Gadsden flag patch on his backpack. The story went viral, sparking outrage and support for the student’s First Amendment rights. The school falsely claimed that the Gadsden…
My apologies to Oscar Hammerstein, whose song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from his great 1945 musical Carousel with Richard Rodgers not only is one of the great triumphs of the American musical theater but later became the anthem for an…
The very notion of republican self-governance, which has been a core tenet of Western civilization since the demise of the great monarchs of Europe, depends upon the willingness of citizens to debate and deliberate the most pressing issues of society….
Societies advance through the creation, expression, and evaluation of alternative ideas. Therefore, for almost a millennium, we have had universities where ideas and discoveries are born and different perspectives are debated in “marketplaces of ideas” or “learning communities.” Yet there…
Lamenting the astonishing success of the activist Left’s century-long Gramscian march through America’s major institutions is, at this juncture, old hat. Still, there have been a few recent powerful examples, coming in quick succession, illustrating the extent to which leading…
Watch the video that went viral of a March 9 exchange between a Stanford administrator and a conservative federal judge who had been invited to speak before the Stanford Federalist Society — only to be heckled and drowned out by…
One of the largely forgotten “isms” in the litany of guilt-inducing “bigotries” thrown at conservatives from the left has been getting a little play lately — colonialism. There’s racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, speciesism — we know those only too well…
In a refreshing religious liberty result from the world of academia, free speech won and preferred pronouns lost. A professor at Shawnee State University, in Portsmouth, Ohio, will be able to honor his conscience as a Christian who believes God…
We’ve all heard stories about university administrators cracking down on free speech. But free expression is suffering even without these enablers, and that should worry us. In a recent New York Times op-ed, University of Virginia senior Emma Camp powerfully…
