What do University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot and Pulitzer Prize winning historian John Meacham have in common? They both recently had invited talks canceled because of their politics. Abbot ...
“Disinvitation season” used to be a season; when student activists worked to disinvite usually conservative commencement speakers. Now it’s “cancel culture”; a year-round 24/7 pursuit to muzzle all ...
More than one year after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology canceled a speech by a prominent scientist over his political views, faculty members have endorsed a pledge to protect free speech at ...
UChicago geophysical sciences professor Dorian Abbot was disinvited from the annual John Carlson Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in September following backlash from MIT’s ...
"Disinvitation season" used to be a season when student activists worked to disinvite usually conservative commencement speakers. Now it's "cancel culture" — a year-round 24/7 pursuit to muzzle all ...
At the invitation of University of Chicago professor Dorian Abbot, I wrote the following essay for his Heterodox STEM Substack website, which was featured today on The College Fix — “New Heterodox ...
On Sept. 30, geophysicist Dorian Abbot’s public lecture on climate change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was canceled after Abbot’s views on affirmative action caused outrage and angry ...
“Bandwagon” is a term associated with educational “innovations” or political campaigns. The worst is an educational bandwagon based upon a political ideology. A few weeks ago, we celebrated the ...
How do you bring about a free speech turnaround on campus? Maybe, just maybe, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is on the verge of that achievement. On Sept. 30, 2021, MIT committed what many ...