FIRE’s new faculty study finds conservatives are scarce among politically active professors. The real debate is no longer whether the narrowing exists, but why.
After a public outcry, a new Colorado law has repealed the state’s requirement that private attorneys pledge under penalty of perjury not to assist federal immigration enforcement in order to access the state’s legal system.
Best-selling author Jeffrey Rosen, one of America’s foremost historians and legal analysts, has joined FIRE as a senior fellow and launched a new podcast.
A Tennessee school has learned — again — that forcing patriotism violates the First Amendment. Students can’t be punished for sitting during the Pledge.
A third of faculty say they self-censor their written work, nearly four times the number of social scientists who said the same in 1954 at the height of McCarthyism.
However difficult it might be for universities to reestablish these norms after decades of encouraging the opposite, failing to do so will have dire consequences.
