What Free-Speech Warriors Get Wrong
A representative of a college invites someone to campus to speak. The prospective speaker accepts the invitation, whereupon the arrangement is announced. Dissidents object and demand that the invitation be rescinded. At that point, have the dissidents failed to respect norms of open discourse, healthy pluralism, or freedom of expression? Some observers believe that in […]
The Partnership of Speech
Most of us agree, at least in principle, that a stronger commitment to free speech on our campuses and in public life would be a welcome improvement over the tense and constrained environment we have endured for too many years. Yet conditions seem only to be worsening. The murder of Charlie Kirk on an American […]
Diversifying the Academy
I have been a member of the law faculty at Vanderbilt University for nearly twenty years. Even though my faculty has grown over that time, there are fewer conservatives now than when I joined. We are down to four—a mere ten percent or so of the tenure-track faculty—and two of the four are nearly 80. […]
