Republicans Once Championed Free Speech on Campus. Now, Not So Much.

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As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely.

Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power in state and federal government, are behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.

 

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Trump has turbocharged the attacks on free speech at US universities. I have seen it first-hand​

“If you love Hamas so much why not pack up and move to south Gaza,” an infuriated reader wrote to me last spring, after the LA Times published my opinion article criticising my own university, the University of Southern California (USC), for calling in riot police to arrest peaceful protesters.

Trump has turbocharged the attacks on free speech at US universities. I have seen it first-hand | Sandy Tolan

For speaking up for Palestine, I have been targeted – and have seen colleagues and students face arrest and sanctions, says Sandy Tolan, a professor at the University of Southern California

www.theguardian.com

 

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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia​

The United States is home to the best collection of research universities in the world. Those universities have contributed tremendously to America’s prosperity, health, and security. They are magnets for outstanding talent from throughout the country and around the world.

The Trump administration’s recent attack on Columbia University puts all of that at risk, presenting the greatest threat to American universities since the Red Scare of the 1950s. Every American should be concerned.

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

www.theatlantic.com