“Is Campus Censorship the New Normal?” in Free Inquiry Magazine By Greg Lukianoff Check out the latest issue of Free Inquiry magazine which features an article by my colleague Will Creeley and me that explores how censorship of campus speech ends up hurting all of us in the long run. The article, entitled “Is Campus [...]

Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

The nature of existence is boom and bust. The pattern of rising up and falling down, birth and death, debt and wealth, consolidation and expansion. The phoenix burns bright until crumbling to ash — only to rise again in a new form.
So too with political ideology.
On Pajamas TV’s “FrontPage with Allen Barton,” professor C. Bradley [...]

Not surprisingly, as I predicted yesterday, the gun prohibitionists are attacking the Supreme Court’s correct decision yesterday interpreting  the Second Amendment according to its original intent -  as a fundamental individual constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The New York Times in its lead editorial today called the Court’s reasoning “infuriating abstract.” I call the Court’s opinion refreshingly judicious.
Progressives [...]

The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 majority, has once again vindicated the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms as constitutionally guaranteed by the Second Amendment.  The Court today extended to the states and local governments its 2008 ruling that individuals have a federally protected individual right to keep and bear arms, questioning the constitutionality of  Chicago’s [...]

Leftist gays condemn the only country in the Middle East where they won’t be lynched for being gay.

Earlier this week, a group called Queers Against Israeli Apartheid boasted that the Pride Toronto organizers had voted to reverse a decision which would now let them march in the Gay Pride parade. They proudly touted it as a blow against censorship and then issued this statement:
“This is a victory for the Palestine solidarity movement, [...]

Mississippi College Bars Student from Course for Swearing Outside of Class May 18, 2010 JJACKSON, Miss., May 18, 2010—Mississippi’s largest community college unconstitutionally bans “cursing and vulgarity” and has barred a student from a course for swearing outside of class. After Hinds Community College (HCC) student Isaac Rosenbloom was forbidden to return to class and [...]

FIRE and ACLU of San Diego: California College’s ‘Free Speech Patio’ Chills Expression