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December 16, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
"Trustees Approve Free Speech Policy," said the November 30th headline in the Tufts student newspaper. This purports to be good news, but this is ...
 
     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
The indispensible FIRE---the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education---bestows a regular mock honor on some offending college or university: the Speech Code of the Month. ...
 
     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
A convicted terror bomber, Raymond Luc Levasseur, invited by a far left center to speak at the University of Massachusetts. Amherst, was disinvited after pressure ...
 
     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Abby Thernstrom famously called our colleges and universities "islands of repression in a sea of freedom," meaning, of course that for some twenty years, no ...
 
     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
At the tenth anniversary dinner last night for FIRE---the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education---I asked Robert Sibley of the group if they were still ...
 
October 13, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Every now and then an American university sponsors a conference on Israel and Palestine that appears to be an open and fair-minded event, but turns ...
 
September 22, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
The script is almost always the same: a campus conservative group invites a speaker who opposes illegal immigration; angry leftist students  denounce him as a ...
 
April 14, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
We belatedly came across two free-speech articles this morning, one a year old, the other a week old. The year-old story is vaguely similar ...
 
April 3, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
 The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) took its customary bystander role in the Ward Churchill ...
 
April 2, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) is attempting to force faculty to take an ideological oath to "diversity." Promotion and tenure will depend ...
 

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