Campus free speech articles
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Why are free speech defenders not helping campus protesters?
The principle of robust and open debate does not seem to apply when it comes to demonstrations about Gaza. University chiefs are terrified—but they mu
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Alito warns of ‘declining’ support for free speech on college campuses
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said there is “declining” support for free speech on college campuses as pro-Palestine protests take place at universities across the country. As part of a commencement address he gave at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, a Catholic Ohio college, Alito said support for the freedom of speech is “declining dangerously.”
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A Lawsuit 30 Years Ago Affirmed Free Speech on Texas College Campuses
In 1989, then-Southwest Texas State University (SWT) sent a warning to the Hays County Guardian: Its student employees would no longer be allowed to hand out copies of the free local newspaper on campus. The publisher of the paper was something of a firebrand. Two years later, he’d be arrested for a demonstration in favor […]