Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment specialist, and Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist, in The Coddling of the American Mind, which came out in 2017. That’s true for some students, writes Kathleen Stock on Substack. But not all “speech sanitizers” are child-like and passive. A skeptic on transgenderism, she was witch-hunted out of her job as a University of Sussex philosophy pr

Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University profesor, in Inside Higher Ed. The new wage of legislation has been misreported, writes Minowitz. An Oklahoma community college canceled a summer 2021 course on race and ethnicity, “fearing that it might violate the state’s new measure barring instruction that creates discomfort,” writes historian Jonathan Zimmerman  in The Hill. That’s not accurate

John the Author is scheduled to speak at New Trier High on Feb. 28. New Trier High School on Chicago’s wealthy, white North Shore has scheduled a day of workshops on “racial civil rights,” reports the Chicago Tribune. Students must attend the keynote speech. After that, they can choose which sessions to attend. A group called “Parents of New Trier” is demanding that moderate and conservative speakers be added to the Feb. 28 event, known as “Seminar Day.” If not, it should be