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The Fall of Penn’s President Brings Campus Free Speech to a Crossroads
Before the Israel-Hamas war, universities were already engulfed in debates over what kinds of speech are acceptable.
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Training People to Think of Themselves as Weak Is a Form of Abuse
The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been roundly condemned for arguing…
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Campus Speech Codes Should Be Abolished
The tentative, lawyerly answers given last week by three university presidents at a House committee hearing investigating the state of…
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What Is the Real Meaning of ‘Pro-Life’?
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The Fallout From the College Presidents’ Antisemitism Testimony
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Talk to Me
At the risk of sounding mawkishly positive, I think I’ve discovered a cheap, simple fix for our fraying social, emotional…
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The Conversations About the War in Gaza We Ought to Be Having
The conflict in Israel and Palestine has thrown American campuses and society into turmoil. We are both deans of public…
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Columbia University Postpones a Fund-Raiser as Divisions Over War Deepen
Columbia has said it should be a space for “moral and intellectual conversations” about the Israel-Hamas war, but as those…
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Turmoil Over Student Support for Hamas
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Biden’s Response to Israeli War Meets Centrist Praise and Liberal Anger
A prime-time address to the nation on Thursday will be the president’s third major speech on the Mideast conflict as…
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