This week I survived Hurricane Sandy, a massive tree covering the entire front of my house, an intermittent Internet connection, and even guest-blogging for The Volokh Conspiracy. For my last post, I wanted to end on a positive note. First, I wanted to let you all know that I am having a book event for […]
Author Archive | Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging
‘The New York Times’, Yale, and Sissygate
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on November 2, 2012 10:52 am in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
Last week, I had the pleasure of having my first op-ed published in The New York Times, and I was pleased (and a little surprised) when the letters to the editor that were published the next day were overwhelmingly positive. The op-ed changed a lot during the editing process, evolving from what started as a […]
Private Religious Colleges and Free Speech
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on November 1, 2012 10:38 am in First Amendment, Freedom of Association, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
I have been guest blogging this week, and Eugene asked me to reserve some of my posts to respond to reader comments. From the moment that Eugene announced I would be posting, a few commenters have decided that the single most important thing FIRE should actually be fighting is the scourge of censorship-happy Christian colleges. […]
Only a Few Examples of Censorship on Campus?
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 31, 2012 6:10 pm in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
A few commenters on my latest post for The Volokh Conspiracy have been riffing on the theme that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE, where I work) is only able to show a few examples of censorship on campus, and therefore it must not be that big of a problem. Here’s my erudite […]
The Reality of College Censorship, Part 2: Speech Codes
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 31, 2012 9:45 am in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
While the public seems to fondly believe that speech codes are a thing of the past — a bygone product of the “political correctness” movement of the 1980s and 1990s — they are alive and well on the modern college campus. As I explain in Unlearning Liberty, these days, you’re unlikely to open up a student handbook and […]
The Reality of College Censorship, Part 1: Censorpalooza
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 30, 2012 1:00 pm in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
As those of you who read my blog yesterday know, Eugene invited me to be a guest contributor to The Volokh Conspiracy this week in order to discuss some of the issues raised in my recently released book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. Yesterday, I described the negative impact that suppressing […]
Free Speech on Campus & ‘Unlearning Liberty’
By Greg Lukianoff, guest-blogging on October 29, 2012 10:00 am in First Amendment, Freedom of Speech at Colleges and Universities
Thank you to Eugene for inviting me to guest blog on The Volokh Conspiracy this week. By way of introduction, I am a First Amendment lawyer and the president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), and my new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, hit the bookshelves […]