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2 weeks ago | 
aei.org | Robert Maranto |Sally Satel |Catherine Salmon |Lee Jussim Ph. D.
The Free Inquiry Papers: How to Bring Back Free Inquiry Key PointsFree inquiry is essential for democracy, science, and individual justice. Free inquiry in the United States is under threat. Today’s taboos are developed and enforced not by outsiders but students, professors, and bureaucracies within higher education. Rapid, ongoing changes in higher education bear close examination with regard to their influence on free inquiry in academia.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
businessandamerica.com | Robert Maranto |Wilfred Reilly
There is no reason to limit smart outsiders’ insights purely to the federal level of government. Source link
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
nationalreview.com | Robert Maranto |Wilfred Reilly
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Robert Maranto
President-elect Donald Trump’s surprising popular vote victory reflected many things, including nostalgia for low inflation and peace in the Middle East, distrust of establishment elites, and the kingmaker role of one antiestablishment titan, X master Elon Musk. Yet pundits have ignored empirical evidence that the free speech voters Musk tried to mobilize may have made the difference in a close race.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Robert Maranto
As the Rodney Dangerfields of higher education, education schools get no respect. Back in 1921, using the rough speech of the day, Harvard President Lawrence Lowell described his university’s then-new school of education as “a kitten that ought to be drowned.” Between then and now, few have stepped forward to applaud the institutions.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
mindingthecampus.org | Robert Maranto
zero comment On the September 27th edition of PBS’s Washington Week, reporters expressed barely controlled outrage about the Trump campaign’s slanderous attacks on Haitian immigrants. Why don’t seemingly racist—not to mention sexist—statements crater Mr. Trump’s support? Chiefly because when, in the eyes of professors and reporters, everyone is racist, then no one is. Normal American voters reflexively discount charges of prejudice even when, as in Mr. Trump’s case, they seem true.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
mindingthecampus.org | Robert Maranto
zero comment Recently, Federal Judge Mark C. Scarsi ruled that a leading university (UCLA) acted illegally when it worked with pro-Hamas protesters to deny Jewish students access to portions of campus, including a library.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
skeptic.com | Michael Mills |Robert Maranto |Richard E. Redding
We are three college professors who wish to call attention to a growing problem, namely the erosion of the foundational values of a college education: free inquiry and free speech, rationality and empiricism, civil discussion and debate, and openness to new ideas. The Rise of Critical TheoriesCritical theory is a school of thought that has its roots in Marxist theories of human nature and society.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thehill.com | Robert Maranto
Even before the Jan. 6 fiasco, I avoided voting for Donald Trump because he seemed autocratic. Nothing in Trump’s recent behavior leads me to rethink that. Further, there are things I like about Vice President Kamala Harris, who was once a tough-on-crime prosecutor. Yet I can’t vote for the vice president because her administration, and many in her party, want to fire me for my political views. For this college professor and John McCain Republican, democracy cannot mean professional suicide.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Jay Greene |Robert Maranto
“Snitches get stitches” is a threat typically made by adolescents to avoid punishment by intimidating those who might expose their misdeeds. Yet it seems Harvard is a glorified junior high these days, with Lawrence Bobo, its dean of social sciences, threatening faculty who publicly criticize the university for its mistreatment of Jewish students.
