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Comments made during a recent university assembly by Cornell’s president, Martha Pollack, suggest that the response to the disruption of Ann Coulter’s speech last week may ultimately be tepid and dismissive. Her words do...
The students who prevented me from speaking were not engaging in fiery argument, or any kind of argument at all, but the most anti-intellectual response imaginable: whoopie cushions, screaming, and loud circus music—mocking the...
The freedom of invited speakers to express their beliefs, no matter how controversial and without fear of reprisal, is a sacred principle that you can publicly and forcefully vindicate.
Critics of Sen. Ben Sasse’s (R-Neb.) bid to become president of the University of Florida […]
Yesterday at the University of Florida, students protested Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse’s candidacy for the position of university president and disrupted an opportunity for others to ask him questions. Are these students so unaccustomed...
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...
As if on cue, students at the University at Buffalo (UB) provided us […]
WASHINGTON, DC—The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is proud to announce that Judge Cabranes will receive the 2019 Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education at ACTA’s annual ATHENA conference....
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