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December 16, 2009     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. ...
 
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 ...
 
April 2, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
News reports on UCLA's latest annual survey of college freshmen have focused on worries about financial aid as a factor in choosing which college to ...
 
February 25, 2009     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
New York University students, or at least a few dozen of them, have just set several records for student occupations of a campus building: ...
 
     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Over the winter break, Boston College placed in its classrooms crucifixes and other Christian symbols, many of them brought back from historically Catholic countries by ...
 
     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
The case of Jonathan Lopez, the Los Angeles Community college student who allegedly was called a "fascist bastard" by his speech professor for delivering ...
 
November 10, 2008     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Closed Minds? Politics and Ideology in America Universities, published in September to little ...
 
September 17, 2008     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
The wars over sexual education in elementary schools may be heating up again, this time over Senator Barack Obama’s explanation that he voted for an ...
 
July 23, 2008     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Required summer reading for college freshmen is often highly politicized. That goes double for freshmen introductory writing courses and textbooks. Teaching composition to new students ...
 
June 29, 2008     by John Leo    bio | archives | contact
Canada’s human-rights tribunals are best known for penalizing critics of Muslim fundamentalists, but they spend much more time ...
 

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