“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.” Mark Zuckerberg confirms the government’s jawboning of social media platforms. It reinforces what FIRE recently told the Supreme Court: when government officials coerce private

Check out the conversation between Elizabeth Weiss and Frances Widdowson, two professors cancelled for commiting truth-seeking. National Association of Scholars Cornell Free Speech Alliance MIT Free Speech Alliance youtu.be/TFPvCvuy4Gk?fe…

Bravo, Cornell University! Now the real work of renewal can begin. American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) offers a great blueprint for that in its Gold Standard for Freedom of Expression™… goacta.org/campus-freedom… Cornell Free Speech Alliance The Cornell Review The College Fix

BREAKING: The new Chair of the Penn Board of Trustees suggests Penn is considering institutional neutrality and reiterates that it will not divest from or boycott Israel. He adds that the “BDS movement demonizes Jewish and Israeli members of our community.”

Ivy League school sees anti-Israel protests on day one of classes: This is a ‘deep cultural problem,’ professor says. msn.com/en-us/news/us/…

The Student Free Speech Alliance at UNC (Student Free Speech Alliance at UNC) is out on campus recruiting more students to become free speech defenders at Carolina! Alumni Free Speech Alliance American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) UNC-Chapel Hill #FreeSpeech

The Task Force on Antisemitism at Columbia University has just published their second report. We recommend reading the full report (president.columbia.edu/sites/default/…), but we've compiled the most egregious details of what Jewish and Israeli students experienced this year... THREAD 🧵...

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For taking intellectual freedom seriously, Elizabeth Weiss, Frances Widdowson, and Amy Wax had their academic careers trashed by their universities and (sadly) colleagues . They shared their stories here: National Association of Scholars Cornell Free Speech Alliance MIT Free Speech Alliance youtu.be/gy3A2M24nqU

One of the problems with any institution that has one goal is that once they've achieved that goal, they don't say, "All right, folks, we'll have a going out-of-business ceremony." They have to go on.

Joe Edelman, CEO of Perceptive Advisors, has resigned from the board of Brown University because its leadership has capitulated to protestors and agreed to vote on divestment from Israel. It’s a powerful letter: “I find it morally reprehensible that holding a divestment vote

BREAKING: Washington State University has adopted institutional neutrality! “Taking an institutional stance on controversial issues risks shutting down debate and limiting the free exchange of ideas. Our role as a university is to foster discussion, not stifle it.”

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In the campaign to purge botanical nomenclature of badthink names, the 18th century George Hibbert is a particular target. Not only did he own slaves, he defended the practice. There's more to George Hibbert's story National Association of Scholars MIT Free Speech Alliance Cornell Free Speech Alliance . open.substack.com/pub/scottturne…

For context, I wrote more about the campaign to "decolonize" botanical nomenclature about a week ago in Heterodox STEM. National Association of Scholars MIT Free Speech Alliance Cornell Free Speech Alliance open.substack.com/pub/hxstem/p/a…

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Pro-Hamas Student Group Launches Legal Offensive Against Universities, via Algemeiner algemeiner.com/2024/09/11/pro…

As the previous academic year ended with anti-Israel student encampments and protests, Jewish students now fear that the incoming year will be met with more of the same. Michael Starr reports. jpost.com/diaspora/artic…