“Intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such a trinity of freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the…
No Liberty at Liberty
Last week, Liberty University shut down its College Democrats chapter, claiming that the organization runs counter to the values of the university. The group is no longer recognized as a student organization, meaning that it cannot advertise on campus or hold meetings on campus. According to Liberty University vice president…
College: An Intellectual and Moral Wasteland?
When I was in high school, I was often warned about the road ahead. My church’s youth leaders painted a dark picture of public universities as a place with no moral standards. College was supposed to be a place of assaults on Christianity in the classroom and depraved behavior outside…
SDS returns
Students for a Democratic Society is at it again. Not content with closing down one speaker that they did not agree with and disrupting another speaker, SDS has now formed a new student organization called the UNC-Chapel Hill Protester’s Defense Committee and has now filed complaints against campus police. The…
Free Speech Under Attack?
Apparently we have a few people on campus who think that forcible suppression of views that they disagree with is an acceptable practice in a democratic society. They prefer attacks on free speech to engaging in discourse and the competition of ideas. What are they afraid of?
Employee Free Choice Act
Thursday, I was on the fringes of the budget cuts protest and was handed a flier by someone who looked far too old to be a college student. This flier was not in fact about the budget cuts, but calling for Americans to support the Employee Free Choice Act. The…