Peter Bonilla tells the heartening story of two recent court cases that resulted in legal victories for the protection of free speech rights. In one case a federal court addressing a public university and in another, a state's highest court addressing a private university upheld free speech protections for faculty members sanctioned for expressing views their administrations disliked.
John Agresto tells us that today’s liberal arts critics are wrong to discard the past, to teach that the best that has been said or written can only burden us with “old ideas and antique prejudices.” A more generous understanding of the liberal arts not only illuminates but can “carry us ahead not simply against the winds of public opinions and prejudices but against the stifling forces of academia itself.”
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
March 18, 2022
Political scientist and NAS board member Bruce Gilley’s article “The Case for Colonialism” (republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018), has been the subject o......
October 18, 2023
The claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” southern slave patrols, is false....
