Today’s Inside Higher Ed covers Saint Louis University’s decision to block David Horowitz from delivering an address called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness and Civil Rights.” Apparently, the university believed the program as planned was “attacking another faith” and could cause “derision” on campus (whatever that means).
In a 3-part series of blog posts, liberal academic Stanley Fish stresses the difference between education and indoctrination in university classrooms, and advocates for the former.
David Horowitz and I rarely agree on anything. But we are in complete harmony on one point: it’s absolutely wrong for St. Louis University (SLU) officials to ban him from speaking on campus.
Fourteen Columbia professors are protesting the university’s apparent decision to award tenure to Joseph A. Massad, a controversial anti-Israel professor of Arab studies.
A culture of fear appears to be chilling expression at Bucknell University, where even the student newspaper fears a libel lawsuit from Associate Dean of Students Gerald W. Commerford if it were to print a critical advertisement from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
A professor who objected to a sexual harassment code finds himself facing mysterious charges.
Conservatives should applaud Stanley Fish for claiming that academic judgment exists separately from political judgment.
Yale University Press bans the publication of any picture of Muhammad from a book it is set to publish.
Central Michigan University has derecognized and revoked the registered student organization privileges of Campus Conservatives for hosting nationally-known conservative author and commentator David Horowitz.
