China censors Thai art show on authoritarianism, Hong Kong cites U.S. crackdowns to justify jailing Jimmy Lai, and T-shirts get people in trouble in Venezuela and Morocco
HHS’s Title VI findings against Harvard collapse speech and conduct into one bucket, creating a de facto national campus speech code that threatens to turn political dissent into a punishable civil rights violation.
2025 has not been kind to Harvard. To date, the Trump administration has revoked nearly $3 billion in research funding to the university, demanding violations of free speech, academic freedom, and institutional autonomy in return for restoring the funding.
Free speech is the foundation of our nation’s academic institutions, permitting students and faculty to seek the truth through a diversity of voices.
The important thing to remember when thinking about student speech is that, in higher education, students have the same free speech rights as anyone else in our country.
Free expression and academic freedom are at the core of a public university’s truth-seeking mission, which, in turn, plays a vital part in preserving free thought within our free society.
A student journalist exposed a scandal involving food aid at the country’s top tribal arts school — and the administration responded by stripping him of housing and branding him a bully. Not on our watch.
