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8 Mar 2022, 5:30 am
[The AFA calls on the University of Dayton to allow its faculty to hear from the speakers they want] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to the University of Dayton calling on the university to reaffirm its own commitments to freedom of thought after an unfortunate administrative intervention into a scholarly conference organized by members of its faculty and held on the university campus. The Human Rights Center at the University of Dayton organized a conference that was held on… [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 3:50 pm
[The AFA calls on Concordia University Wisconsin to recognize the academic freedom of Prof. Gregory Schulz] The Academic Freedom Alliance released a public letter to Concordia University Wisconsin calling on the university to reaffirm the academic freedom of philosophy professor Gregory Schulz. Schulz is active speaker and writer for public audiences on issues associated with the Lutheran Church, with which Concordia University Wisconsin is affiliated. Earlier this month, he published an online… [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 3:59 pm
[A conversation with Oxford University's Jeff McMahan on asking difficult questions in moral philosophy] 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. This is a special episode recorded over the weekend with Oxford University Professor Jeff McMahan. McMahan is a leading philosopher of practical ethics and has written and taught on a wide range of controversial topics.… [read post]
4 Feb 2022, 2:25 pm
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted a faculty letter in support of Stephen Kershnar, the philosophy professor currently barred from the SUNY Fredonia campus for publicly engaging in a philosophical discussion of the immorality of sexual acts between children and adults. You can find more background about the controversy here. It remains to be seen how SUNY Fredonia would distinguish Professor Kershnar's discussion of these issues on the Brain a Vat podcast in 2022,… [read post]
21 Jan 2022, 2:29 pm
[Federal judge issues a strongly worded opinion on Florida's conflict of interest policy] The professors who were blocked by the University of Florida from offering expert testimony in a voting rights lawsuit against the state have won a significant legal victory for their academic freedom claims. The university had claimed that such expert testimony was a violation of the university's conflict of interest policy. That claim caused an outcry among academic freedom advocates, including the… [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 12:04 pm
[Universities should not compel professors to affirm their belief of contested values] The Academic Freedom Alliance today issued its first guidance statement. These statements will address broader policy issues in American higher education that implicate academic freedom but that might not involve any particular incident at a specific university or relating to a specific individual professor. This statement relates to the increasingly common demand by university officials that professors affirm… [read post]
24 Jul 2024, 8:37 am
Michael McConnell says, "Keith Whittington has done the country a favor. [read post]
28 May 2024, 12:28 pm
In this path-breaking book, Keith Whittington argues that the First Amendment imposes meaningful limits [read post]
11 Mar 2024, 4:42 am
[The AFA objects] The Academic Freedom Alliance sent a letter to Texas Tech University protesting its suspension and investigation of Education Professor Jairo Funez-Flores. Like many others, Funez-Flores has shared his thoughts on the events in Israel and Gaza on social media. As with many academics, his views on Israel are controversial. In his case, expressing his private political opinions on social media resulted in his being suspended, investigated, and threatened with termination by his… [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 9:18 am
[So says the DC Circuit Court] The D.C. Circuit Court's opinion in US v. Donald Trump on whether the former president enjoys a blanket immunity from criminal prosecution for his actions while president is now out. It can be found here. It is a comprehensive opinion, and I think a correct one. Given my own scholarly interests, I was particularly anxious about how the court might handle the claim that an officer who has been acquitted in an impeachment trial cannot be criminally… [read post]
9 Nov 2023, 7:43 am
[Supporting Hamas butchery of Israeli civilians is beyond the pale] The extraordinary outpouring of support on American university campuses for the events of October 7th has, unsurprisingly, led to some backlash from alumni, donors, and future employers. Big donors to elite institutions are realizing that something has gone terribly wrong on college campuses and have reconsidered their support. Big law firms have questioned whether students involved in such political activities would be acceptable… [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 3:00 am
Education Mark Bauerlein, Senior Editor at First Things, Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University Keith [read post]
11 Oct 2024, 1:57 pm
A health sports instructor at the University of Kansas is out of a job after a video clip of his in-class behavior went viral. The university's statements do not inspire confidence, even though the professor might well have been out of bounds. Libs of Tiktok posted a short clip of an instructor in a classroom at the University of Kansas. In the clip, he seems to say in the middle of a class session, "There are going to be some males in our society that will refuse to vote for a potential… [read post]
30 May 2025, 5:30 am
[A conversation with Eugene Volokh on the First Amendment issues of the Trump administration's actions] A new episode of the Academic Freedom Podcast has been released. The podcast is sponsored by the Academic Freedom Alliance and the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech at Yale Law School. This episode features a conversation with co-blogger Eugene Volokh, the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He blogged about the Harvard situation here. On May 22, the Department… [read post]
17 Apr 2023, 5:41 am
[How bad is that divisive concepts bill?] Republican state legislatures across the country are debating significant reforms in state university systems. Some of the reform proposals are fairly modest, but others would substantially transform how higher education work in public universities. In several instances, those bills are now moving toward some resolution, and so a series of posts checking in on where things stand seems in order. I discussed North Dakota and Texas and Ohio in earlier posts.… [read post]
19 Aug 2022, 2:23 pm
I have already edited the case for the companion site to the Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington [read post]
19 Feb 2022, 2:03 pm
[A conversation with Dan Cullen about the Academic Leaders Task Force on Campus Free Expression] 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 Dan Cullen, a professor of philosophy at Rhodes College and director of the Project for the Study of Liberal Democracy. He was a member of the Academic Leaders Task Force on Campus Free Expression. The… [read post]
1 Dec 2021, 8:10 am
[The Academic Freedom Alliance called on Old Dominion to protect professor from threats] Professor Allyn Walker was a sociologist at Old Dominion University. Walker's research included "minor attracted individuals," which was the topic of Walker's new book recently published by a well-respected university press. When Walker's research came to public attention, it generated immediate controversy, including threats against Walker and the campus and calls for Walker's… [read post]
15 Jan 2020, 7:05 pm
” At “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Keith E. [read post]
26 Apr 2008, 10:02 am
Wade Should Have Said (2005)Sotirios Barber and James E. [read post]
