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    Roman Catholic Lawyers Involvement in Polish Universities Free Speech Violations

    "The Church, Universities and Poland" By John Morgan (for Times Higher Education) Inside Higher Ed

    The Misplaced Site of Free Speech Wars

    Salon's Amanda Marcotte reports that centering campuses as the true sites for free speech wars plays into "right-wing hoaxes and scare...

    Canary Mission Anonymity Begins to Erode

    Since its inception in 2015, Canary Mission administrators have maintained full anonymity in their now infamous blacklisting and...

    Canary Mission: From Campus Threat to Border

    Canary Mission launched a website database in 2015, which it claimed "documents individuals and organizations that promote hatred of the...

    Speech First

    Recently groups such as Speech First have been portrayed as grassroots associations of concerned citizens hoping to fight against threats...

    Anti-Semitism Awareness Act

    H.R. 5924/S. 2940, referred to as the "Anti-Semitism Awareness Act," directs the Department of Education to take the State Department's...

    BDS and Academic Freedom

    Rana Jaleel argues in the November-December 2016 issue of Academe that the boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions movement (BDS)...

    Free Speech and Censorship in High Schools and Elementary Schools

    A high school Valedictorian in Covington, KY was denied his speech time at graduation after the local diocese of the Catholic school...

    Campus Free-Speech Legislation: History, Progress, and Problems

    A recent AAUP report, Campus Free-Speech Legislation: History, Progress, and Problems, documents and contextualizes how The Goldwater...

    Universities’ responses to Alt Right attacks

    "War on the Ivory Tower: Alt Right Attacks on University Professors" By Carolyn Gallaher "At stake in universities’ responses to Alt...

    Campus Free Speech Bills

    Louisiana has just become the tenth state to pass a campus “free speech” bill, law SB364. It joins Virginia, Missouri, Arizona, Kentucky,...

    Niall Ferguson

    "The Pity of Niall Ferguson" By Scott Lemieux "Emails between the Hoover Institution’s Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student...

    A new group has formed to take “free speech” lawfare to campuses

    Speech First Politico reports that the group, Speech First, “alleges in a federal lawsuit that the University of Michigan's rules meant...