Like everyone else these days, I’ve been reading and thinking about what’s happening on campuses when invited speakers are shouted down by student protesters. And my mind keeps drifting back to a ...

W e expect a great deal of criticism of our new book, It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, but we were taken aback by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder’s misconstrual of its ...

In the midst of a lively, rambling speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this month — a two-hour, improvisational performance full of typically Trumpian insults, bravado, and ...

The censorship of academic speech is dangerous for us all. Silencing students and professors stunts free thinking. When free speech is shut down in schools, a domino effect ensues. Professionals ...

Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. All year we’ve bandied about phrases like “civil discourse, ...

A new episode of The Academic Freedom Podcast from the Academic Freedom Alliance is now available. Subscribe through your favorite platform so you don't miss an episode. In this episode I talk with ...

The University of Colorado board of regents unanimously voted to pass policies regarding free speech and academic freedoms on campus. The University of Colorado (CU) board of regents passed policy ...

Free speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating a political ...

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2025-09-19 09:00:00 2025-09-19 15:15:00 Federal Reach, Academic Speech: The Legal Limits of Executive Authority in Higher Education Event Description In the early ...

In December Monica, Casper, who is Dean of the college of arts and letters at SDSU took to Twitter and made comments about conservatives. Her tweet was met with swift backlash and even threats to the ...