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Academic Freedom Under Attack: A Conversation With Amy Wax

June 5, 2019

Even after enduring intense criticism and professional censure for airing her controversial views in public, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Amy Wax remains as sharp-witted and unapologetic as ever. ACTA’s president, Michael Poliakoff, sat down with her in front of a live audience for a no-holds-barred dialogue on campus assaults to academic freedom.

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Harvard Needs More Conservatives with guest Harvey C. Mansfield

Harvard University has many problems, especially when it comes to intellectual diversity. Can they undertake the hard work of reform, including hiring more conservative scholars? In this episode of Radio Free Campus, Steve McGuire talks with the legendary Harvey C. Mansfield, professor emeritus at Harvard, about higher education’s lack of conservative intellectuals and other problems. If you want to know more about Mansfield’s work discussed in the episode, check out his books Where Harvard Went Wrong and The Rise and Fall of Rational Control.

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Controversial Course Topics, Self-Censorship in Class, and Institutional Neutrality—Oh My!

In this episode of Radio Free Campus, co-hosts Steve McGuire and Justin Garrison analyze a new policy on teaching controversial topics in the University of Texas System. The podcast hosts also discuss what a new survey from Gallup/Lumina reveals about student free speech experiences on their campuses. Steve and Justin also debate an article from Inside Higher Ed that provides a Rawlsian defense of institutional neutrality. The show hosts also announce the University of Wyoming as this episode’s “Hero of the People” and a professor from Stanford University as RFC’s “Apparatchik of the Month.”
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