My talk at Clemson University, part of their Pope Lecture Series, is now online. I especially enjoyed the many intelligent questions from students after my formal remarks. A Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education Lecture by Dr. Stephen Hicks
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Around the world, which universities protect and encourage free thinking? A new index summarizes the data to date, with (interestingly) the USA and Australia left gray due to “Insufficient Data.” Inside Higher Ed has some journalism on the project.
Academic Freedom in universities — new index Read More »
Micro-aggression theory could be seen a sign of progress. The luxury of obsessing over tiny hints of racism or sexism implies that the problem of macro-aggressions has been solved. If your environment — to draw a parallel — is dirty and unhealthy, then you focus on the big messes first. Only when those are cleaned
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For some years outside my office door, I’ve had posted this excerpt from the American Association of University Professors Declaration of Principles on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure (1915): “The university teacher, in giving instruction upon controversial matters, while he is under no obligation to hide his own opinion under a mountain of equivocal verbiage,
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I am a supporter of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the nation’s leading institution devoted to fighting for intellectual freedom on college campuses. My friend and intellectual colleague, David Ross, has written an excellent statement [pdf] explaining why he supports FIRE. Dr. Ross is a mathematics professor and so is very sharp as
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