WILLIAMSTOWN— Dear President Maud Mandel, Williams College, We write as chair of the advisory board, interim executive director, and incoming executive director,respectively, of the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), a national organization comprised of nearly 700...
Israel and Academic Freedom: An Exchange
In her essay, Katherine Franke of Columbia University shows a remarkably selective myopia. She seeks to persuade readers we have reached a significant turning point on public recognition of Israel’s suppression of Palestinian human rights—citing...
Now, More Than Ever, We Need Diversity in Admissions
Viewpoint and religious discrimination at San Francisco State University
What happens when a university lets a select group decide what constitutes “hate speech” for an entire campus? The answer at San Francisco State University is censorship of any opinions the group doesn’t like. This...
Free Speech, Campus Safety, or Both
Concrete barriers were erected and a security perimeter was created around six buildings, all reinforced by hundreds of police officers. Weapons, backpacks, helmets, and masks were forbidden. This was not some distant capital in a...
Is Free Speech Under Fire on Campus?
Over the past few months, a series of student protests has erupted across the United States on campuses such as Amherst, Dartmouth, Ithaca, the University of Missouri and Yale. While the specific spark of each...
Appreciating Hillels On College Campuses
The great rabbinic scholar Abraham Joshua Heschel once remarked that “mankind will not perish for want of information but for want of appreciation.” Too often we in the Jewish community fail to appreciate what dedicated...
Opinions | U.C. principles give needed protection to Jewish students
Former tennis star John McEnroe, when vociferously contesting a linesman’s call that his shot was out of bounds, famously remarked: “You can’t be serious!” The regents of the University of California similarly have called foul...
Anti-Semitism and junk Constitutional law
Governments not only do things like provide police protection and build infrastructure, they also speak and provide moral leadership. The Board of Regents of the University of California recently had such a teaching moment.
Anti-Semitism and junk Constitutional law
Governments not only do things like provide police protection and build infrastructure, they also speak and provide moral leadership. The Board of Regents of the University of California recently had such a teaching moment. In...