Last Monday, FIRE and the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) jointly applied for permission to file an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) brief with the Kansas Court of Appeals in Yeasin v. University of Kansas. The brief argues that public universities cannot…
Tag: Free speech
The Catholic Pagan: 10 Questions for Camille Paglia
It’s too bad there aren’t more people like her willing to state the obvious. Very few people provide more insight into contemporary American culture than she does. Her ideas are always from a fresh perspective unencumbered by political/social biases or the,…
Free speech is so last century. Today’s students want the ‘right to be comfortable’
An excerpt from this article: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9376232/free-speech-is-so-last-century-todays-students-want-the-right-to-be-comfortable/ Brendan O’Neill and Harriet Brown discuss the rise of the Stepford student Have you met the Stepford students? They’re everywhere. On campuses across the land. Sitting stony-eyed in lecture halls or surreptitiously policing beer-fuelled…
