“Be warned that once you become in power, to use government as a bludgeon is as evil as the masters before you” “In these times, where the allies of justice seem to be winning, it is important that we don’t use the media, as a bludgeon to quiet those who may disagree with us.” In…
Read moreFIRE and SPLC File ‘Amici’ Brief for Kansas Student Expelled for Tweets
Last Monday, FIRE and the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) jointly applied for permission to file an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) brief with the Kansas Court of Appeals in Yeasin v. University of Kansas. The brief argues that public universities cannot sacrifice the First Amendment rights of students in seeking to comply with Title IX anti-discrimination…
Read moreThe Catholic Pagan: 10 Questions for Camille Paglia
It’s too bad there aren’t more people like her willing to state the obvious. Very few people provide more insight into contemporary American culture than she does. Her ideas are always from a fresh perspective unencumbered by political/social biases or the, worse yet, biases of academia. An excerpt from this article: http://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/catholic-pagan-10-questions-camille-paglia Identifying yourself as a “dissident…
Read moreFree speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
An excerpt from this article: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/ Brendan O’Neill and Harriet Brown discuss the rise of the Stepford student Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled banter in the uni bar. They look like students, dress like students, smell like students….
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