Under new State Department guidance, having private or no social media presence "may be reflective of evasiveness and call into question [a student visa] applicant's credibility."
A conversation with Eugene Volokh on the First Amendment issues of the Trump administration's actions
Trump is wielding the state against a school whose politics he doesn't like.
An explainer from Cass Sunstein
Can Trump do that, and what would it mean?
The Harvard psychologist discusses recent gains for free speech at Harvard, growing political and ideological threats to academic freedom, and the importance of shared knowledge in sustaining truth and progress.
The administration's demands extend far beyond its avowed concern about antisemitism and enforcement of "civil rights laws."
Plus: Democrats visit El Salvador, Taiwan invasion possibilities, Hayek on rule of law, and more...
Apparently freezing $2 billion in federal funding wasn't enough.
Brown is violating its code of conduct, which guarantees community members’ right to petition the university.
A lawsuit brought by universities could potentially be much more effective than leaving individual students to fend for themselves.
A conversation with David Cole
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
Is the experiment over?
Just eight colleges had official neutrality policies before the attack. By the end of 2024, it was almost 150.
The podcast relaunches with a conversation with Cary Nelson
New guidance makes explicit what should have been clear already: Standard 208 obligates law schools to embrace First Amendment principles.
Officials allegedly retaliated against a professor who expressed politically controversial statements about the best treatments for gender dysphoria among youth.
Conforming speech policies to the First Amendment would serve private universities well, legally and otherwise.
Officials ordered schools to review all courses with descriptions or syllabi that contain words such as Israel, Palestine, and Jewish.
A new survey from the Knight Foundation found that more than 1 in 4 college students agreed schools should prohibit "speech they may find offensive or biased."
A Harvard Dean suggests universities can and should limit controversial speech.
Harvard is taking steps away from politicization. Will other schools follow?
Following months of campus protests over the war between Israel and Hamas, the university has announced that it will no longer weigh in on current events.
You Can't Teach That! is in fine bookstores now
The bill would allow the Education Department to effectively force colleges to suppress a wide range of protected speech.
DEI statements are political litmus tests.
Plus: A listener asks if there is any place libertarians can go to start their own country or city state.
"If we can't trust ourselves as a culture to accommodate ideas we don't like," the novelist said at the Library of Congress, "then our ideas lose their value as well, because they become authoritarian."
A member of Congress weighs in, and the university president speaks out
An Israeli minister demands that Princeton University prohibit a professor from assigning a controversial book
A response to Porter v. North Carolina State University
State tries to bar Stanford researchers from testifying against it
Professor suspended for criticizing policies of Texas lieutenant governor
Texas A&M placed a professor on paid leave for criticizing Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a lecture on the opioid crisis.
Blame university administrators.
Political appointees should have no role in faculty hiring decisions.
Is "intramural" professorial speech protected by the First Amendment?
But Chris Rufo bragged about breaking the law anyway.
Doctor sanctioned for comments to journalists about transgender athletes
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