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Optimism About the Future of Higher Education

American Enterprise Institute
April 27, 2023

Why Academic Freedom Matters

The Philadelphia Citizen
March 29, 2023

When Professors Offend Students

Chronicle
December 16, 2021

A ‘Roadmap’ for Campus Speech

Inside Higher Ed
December 1, 2021

So They’re Trying to Shut You Up

The Chronicle of Higher Education
October 4, 2021

Some Academic Freedom Victories

Keith E. Whittington, Reason
May 5, 2021

Free Speech Is Under Threat on College Campuses. Here’s How to Fight Back.

Keith E. Whittington, National Review 
March 18, 2021

Fresh Hope for Campus Free Speech

Editorial Board, New York Post
March 15, 2021

A Star Is Born!!! The Academic Freedom Alliance

Richard Vedder, Forbes Magazine
March 15, 2021

Speaking the Truth: Heed the Words of Frederick Douglass

Lucas E. Morel, Persuasion
March 12, 2021

More Defenders of Campus Free Speech

Wall Street Journal
March 9, 2021

Academic Freedom Alliance: Q & A with Keith Whittington

Princetonians For Free Speech
March 8, 2021

Opinion and Commentary

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Still Trying to Kill Tenure in Texas

Keith E. Whittington, The Volokh Conspiracy (Reason)
May 8, 2023

New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom

Steven Pinker and Bertha Madras, The Boston Globe
April 12, 2023

Conservative Faculty Are Outliers on Campus Today

Samuel J. Abrams, RealClearEducation
March 23, 2023

The Search for Truth at Cornell University

Randy Wayne, Heterodox STEM (Substack)
Feb 6, 2023

Yes, DEI Can Erode Academic Freedom. Let's Not Pretend Otherwise.

Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, The Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 6, 2023

A Canceled Cancellation

Scott Richard Lyons, Inside Higher Ed
July 29, 2022

Contingency v. Orthodoxy

Steven McGuire, Inside Higher Ed
July 7, 2022

Rebuilding a Culture of Academic Freedom

Keith Whittington, Law & Liberty
June 17, 2022

I’m a Conservative Professor Who Opposed Safe Spaces. I Was Wrong.

Jon A. Shields, The New York Times
April 7, 2022

Academic freedom cannot make an exception for hate speech

Keith E. Whittington, The Philadelphia Inquirer
January 27, 2022

The intellectual freedom that made public colleges great is under threat

Keith E. Whittington, The Washington Post
December 15, 2021

The Data Is In — Trigger Warnings Don’t Work

Amna Khalid & Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 15, 2021

A Good Statement on Faculty Speech from Syracuse

Keith E. Whittington, Reason.com
September 14, 2021

Is It Ever OK to Enunciate a Slur in the Classroom?

Randall Kennedy, The Chronicle of Higher Education
September 10, 2021

Ten Ways to Defend Against a Cancellation Attack

Lee Jussim, Psychology Today
December 22, 2020

Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom

John McWhorter, The Atlantic 
September 1, 2020

Free Speech Prevails at Princeton

Robert P. George, First Things
July 28, 2020

Protecting Academic Freedom in the Black Lives Matter Era

Jonathan Zimmerman, Inside Higher Ed
June 22, 2020

The Legal Problem With Diversity Statements

Brian Leiter, The Chronicle of Higher Education
March 13, 2020

Can We Guarantee That Colleges Are Intellectually Diverse?

Molly Worthen, The New York Times
August 30, 2019

Unpopular Speech in A Cold Climate

Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker
March 14, 2019 

How a Dispute Over the N-Word Became a Dispiriting Farce

Randall Kennedy, The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 8, 2019

Free Speech Is a Core Tenet of the Academy. College Trustees Really Ought to Know That.

Keith E. Whittington, The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 5, 2018

Truth Seeking, Democracy, and Freedom of Thought and Expression

A Statement by Robert P. George and Cornel West
March 14, 2017

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