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Leftists are limiting academic work to demonstrations of leftist dogma.

A recently fired communications professor at University of California, Los Angeles is offering a strong warning to campus GOP members: “If they can get rid of a professor like me for speaking his mind, what is stopping them from doing the same thing to all of you?”

Why should courts take religious freedom more seriously, given that Notre Dame administrators have effectively admitted their conscience claims were unserious?

Peter Augustine Lawler provides an afterword to the Summer 2017 symposium “Assault on Higher Education: Reports from the Front,” which seeks to understand the current state of the American university and the barriers that exist in obtaining a liberal education.

The proposed tax on university endowments is a good idea and should be larger. High-ranking universities have failed their self-appointed task of cultivating leaders of tomorrow; rather, they merely perpetuate the concentration of cultural power held by an elite class.

Issues surrounding free speech on college campuses have heightened in recent years. Though the consistency of disruptive incidences is cause for concern, available data on the matter offer a glimmer of hope.

The Columbia student newspaper has declined to cover the doxing of Columbia University College Republicans. Earlier in the fall, the New York City Antifa chapter began distributing flyers containing the names and photos of college republican board members, along with vague threats for inviting conservative speakers to campus.