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3 Jan 2023, 8:22 am
[Art history professor fired for showing class a famous Persian art work depicting the Prophet Muhammad] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a statement regarding the decision of Hamline University to fire an instructor for showing a class in global art history a picture of a medieval Persian painting depicting the Prophet Muhammad. [read post]
4 Oct 2021, 7:49 am
[The board of regents proposes sweeping changes that would significantly weaken tenure protections for faculty] Tenure protections at American universities were a central demand of faculty in the early twentieth century. [read post]
18 May 2022, 2:47 pm
[Fifth Circuit panel finds several constitutional problems with the Securities and Exchange Commission] In Jarkesy v. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 5:30 am
Universities should be proactive about articulating, defending and protecting the free exchange of ideas on campusYesterday, I suggested that universities have a free speech problem, even if they do not necessarily face a free speech crisis. [read post]
26 May 2021, 8:16 am
[Conservatives should be fighting to open universities up, not to close them down] At the Chronicle of Higher Education, Sean Wilentz and I have an essay arguing that if reports are true that the board of trustees at the University of North Carolina put the kibosh on a tenure offer to Nikole Hannah-Jones, then those who care about preserving academic freedom should object. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 6:00 am
It is rapidly becoming a talking point among some activists on the left that Mitch McConnell busted all norms in obstructing Barack Obama's circuit court nominees, and thus it is only fair that the Democrat pack the Court at the earliest opportunity. [read post]
14 Aug 2023, 11:33 am
An encouraging sign for the future of American higher education has been the emergence of local faculty groups organizing themselves to advance free speech principles at their particular institution. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 8:55 am
[Symposium issue in Constitutional Commentary now publicly accessible] I am pleased to see that the symposium issue of Constitutional Commentary focusing on my book, Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present, is now publicly available. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 4:57 am
[My new article on the First Amendment and controversial faculty speech] The new issue of the Case Western Reserve Law Review with a symposium on the First Amendment and classrooms has now arrived, and with it my article, "What Can Professors Say in Public? [read post]
26 Aug 2022, 7:35 am
[Diversity statements have become common in university admissions and hiring, and that's a problem] Earlier this week, the Academic Freedom Alliance released a new public statement. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 8:50 am
[I've heard that breaking constitutional norms is a bad thing] I joined Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch on his podcast, The Remnant, to discuss possible reforms to the Supreme Court, the work of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, and the challenges to judicial independence and constitutional government. [read post]
24 Aug 2021, 2:53 pm
The Academic Freedom Alliance recently released the third episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast. [read post]
15 Dec 2021, 6:26 am
[Legislatures and regents across the country are restricting intellectual freedom] The Academic Freedom Alliance was founded with a particular concern for defending individual instructors and scholars at universities whose rights to intellectual freedom were being violated. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 9:56 am
[It might just be political posturing at this point, but the GOP is going down a dangerous path] The embattled Texas attorney general Ken Paxton, an elected Republican, recently filed suit in the Supreme Court seeking an injunction against the seating of Democratic presidential electors in four states and a remand to the Republican-controlled state legislatures to name a new slate of presidential electors. [read post]
26 Jan 2022, 1:01 pm
I have an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the controversy surrounding Professor Amy Wax at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. [read post]
16 Jul 2023, 8:44 am
I am pleased to see that my latest article on the efforts of state legislatures to restrict what ideas professors can endorse in the classroom has now been published. [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 7:28 am
[A new statement worth reading for those concerned with academia] A group of scholars interested in free inquiry and the future of higher education met in Princeton last spring and began a conversation about what principles ought to guide a well-functioning scholarly institution dedicated to the mission of the preservation and advancement of knowledge. [read post]
29 May 2019, 5:00 am
I recently noted that university commencement speakers are a frequent source of controversy and that "controversial" on a college campus usually means anything slightly right of center. [read post]
18 Feb 2022, 1:53 pm
[The lieutenant governor of Texas elevates the idea of ending tenure at public universities] Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick held a press conference today to respond to the Faculty Council of the University of Texas, which recently passed a resolution reemphasizing the importance of academic freedom at the university and denouncing political interventions in the university curriculum. [read post]
30 May 2020, 1:03 pm
Chief Justice Roberts issued an unusual concurring opinion last night to the Court's denial of injunctive relief to churches objecting to California Governor Newsom's public health orders. [read post]
