This webinar was a lot of fun to do, and I appreciate Allan R. Tate and the CIO Symposium leadership for inviting me and Wayne on. We'll let folks know when the video is up!

🚨 Just days away! 🚨 The MIT Free Speech Alliance Alliance 2025 Annual Conference is happening Thursday, September 25 at Le Méridien Boston Cambridge. Join MIT students, faculty, alumni, and administrators for a day of constructive discussions on issues vital to MIT and higher

Another highlight of our conference this week is that it will feature a mini-debate on the Manhattan Institute Statement on Higher Education, featuring Jeffrey Flier, Omar Sultan Haque, Heterodox Academy's John Tomasi, and National Association of Scholars's Peter Wood. Program details in next post!

A few shots from last week's very successful conference in Cambridge for you! We'll have more photos on our website shortly, as well as the videos uploaded to our YouTube channel. Thanks to everyone who came out for a great day of discussions!

Our final all-hands meeting of the year is a little less than 2 weeks away, and we're thrilled to have University of Austin (UATX) President Carlos Carvalho joining as our guest speaker. You won't want to miss the discussion! More info, and registration information, in next post.

I’m in Nashville at the Global Free Speech Summit today and tomorrow. It’s nice to get out of MIT Free Speech Alliance’s usual wheelhouse and see the much bigger effort of which our work is part. And it’s nice to be at a conference whose every detail isn’t my personal responsibility!

Happy Friday! In case you couldn't be with us in Cambridge last week at our conference, you can watch Jonathan Rauch's keynote speech (along with the rest of our conference sessions!) on our YouTube page: (cc: Alumni Free Speech Alliance, National Association of Scholars, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Heterodox Academy) youtube.com/watch?v=xIxLQ4…

We managed to foreshadow the debate over the Trump admin's proposed compact for higher education (of which MIT is one of the first invitees) with our debate on the Manhattan Institute statement on higher education at our fall conference (1/2): youtube.com/watch?v=YWRT02…

ICYMI, you can watch Jonathan Rauch's excellent keynote address from our conference -- alongside all our other conference sessions -- on MFSA's YouTube page! youtube.com/watch?v=xIxLQ4…