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Dr. Dorian Abbot
Professor Abbot was the focus of a highly publicized cancellation in October 2021 when MIT administrators canceled...
On October 3, 2014, ACTA President Anne Neal delivered a speech at the City Club of Cleveland addressing the threat political correctness poses to academic freedom at America's colleges and universities. You can read her full speech here.
Professor Abbot was the focus of a highly publicized cancellation in October 2021 when MIT administrators canceled...
Stanford University’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI) debacle showed that Stanford bureaucrats, like their Orwellian prototypes, are eager to make a Newspeak dictionary with ever-fewer approved words. But they are doing something even more sinister: using software to track the behavior of campus community members and encourage them to report one another for alleged bias incidents. It […]
Free Expression and the Task of American Colleges and Universities There are certain truths of American political life that antedate even the Founding and are as important for our age as they were for ages past. Among these are that demagogues hold most sway over the ignorant, that a free people must be an informed […]
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