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Campus & Academic Freedom

What happened to the AAUP — and why viewpoint diversity matters
An organization that once spoke with unusual moral authority becomes another predictable voice in the partisan chorus.
 • Greg Lukianoff
New study confirms the right — and the center — have nearly disappeared from faculty politics
That is not just a campus culture-war problem. It is a knowledge-creation problem.
 • Greg Lukianoff
What Jonathan Haidt actually said at NYU — and what The Coddling of the American Mind actually argued
Responses to seven arguments against me, Jon, and our book from people who didn’t seem to read it
 • Greg Lukianoff
How institutional review boards threaten groundbreaking research in higher ed
Proposed reforms by FIRE and the Academic Freedom Alliance would ensure safe and ethical research practices while also guarding against ideological and…
 • Nate Honeycutt and Ryne Weiss
Me in the NYT: Play-Doh, Plato, and the 'Form of the Dumb'
Texas lawmakers are dragging the classics into the culture war—and the academy back into the cave
 • Greg Lukianoff
Me in The Washington Post: Where ‘hate speech’ censorship is even worse than on U.S. campuses
Speech restrictions backed by government power in the E.U. and Britain are reaching ludicrous levels.
 • Greg Lukianoff
FIRE brass and I answer member questions!
Watch us discuss freedom of the press, J. Ann Selzer, Indiana University, Charlie Kirk, and more.
 • Greg Lukianoff
Defending our ‘terrible business model’
As we come to the end of a challenging year, supporting FIRE’s nonpartisan defense of free speech is more important than ever.
 • Greg Lukianoff
Why FIRE is now judging bias-reporting systems more harshly — and why I changed my mind
Neighbors turning in neighbors for wrong-think cultivates the habits of an unfree society. We shouldn’t train students to do it—and we certainly…
 • Greg Lukianoff
Men are more tolerant of the other side than women are of their own
New FIRE survey data provides useful insight into the drivers of Cancel Culture on college campuses and beyond
 • Chapin Lenthall-Cleary
Is higher education even interested in reform?
A new featured article by the AAUP calls viewpoint diversity anathema to academic freedom. Where to even begin?
 • Greg Lukianoff, Samuel J. Abrams, and Adam Goldstein
Ten years after ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’: What we warned, what happened, and what’s still at stake
Guess how teaching kids the habits of anxious and depressed people turned out?
 • Greg Lukianoff
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