The Latest Breaking News from Greg Lukianoff

An excellent post, about an organization that I very much admire. An excerpt: Be willing to make common cause with… The post Greg Lukianoff (FIRE) on "Being Non-Partisan in a Partisan Age" appeared first on Reason.com.

Margaret Brennan should immediately Google the Weimar Fallacy.

Bill Maher on weed, wokeness, and 30 years of free speech

An interesting and, I think, sound analysis by Greg Lukianoff (FIRE), responding to ACLU National Legal Director (and Georgetown law professor) David Cole's review of Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott's The Canceling of the American Mind in the New York Review of Books. An excerpt: [A]fter 9/11 only about three professors…

In her article, University of Pennsylvania professor Claire O. Finkelstein absurdly argued that colleges treat free speech as "near-sacred."

“We've taught young people that any of their missteps or any of their heterodox opinions are grounds to tear them down. That's no way to grow up.”

Rikki Schlott and Greg Lukianoff discuss their new book, The Canceling of the American Mind.

I just read and much enjoyed this new book, and highly recommend it: It's readable, factually detailed, and thoughtful in its analysis and recommendations. For a taste of the argument, see this Substack post. And here are a few of the jacket blurbs from others: This riveting book presents compelling…

“The whole woke movement, it’s obviously an echo of those times.”