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Words will never hurt you -- unless you're incredibly fragile
It's a free country and you're entitled to your opinion. Bring back resilience, free thought and intellectual humility.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 102 min read
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Snitching on your neighbor
"Bias reporting" urges people to turn their neighbors in for "wrongthink."

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 253 min read
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Yale liberals: We envy conservatives because they're learning to think and we're not
Yale liberals say they envy conservative classmates who are learning how to understand other points of view and argue for their ideas.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 23, 20242 min read
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Teach math! That's hate speech, Dad
Investigating threats against school officials didn't violate parents' freedom of speech, say courts.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Just say 'no' to authority
Would-be regulators of "disinformation" are trying to punish deviation from their beliefs, charges journalist Matt Taibbi in The Free...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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If the government decides what's 'misinformation,' free speech is dead
Politicians who want to protect us from "misinformation" or "hate speech" want to end free speech.

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 6, 20242 min read
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Is free speech just for nice speech? Students (and adults) need to know civics
Tim Walz, a former social studies teacher who hopes to be vice president, said, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 24, 20243 min read
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Judge: 1st-graders' free-speech rights don't matter
After a lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. at a southern California elementary school, a seven -year-old white girl drew a picture with...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 20, 20242 min read
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Conservative students learn to argue in college -- liberals stay in their bubble
Conservative students sharpen their ideas and listen to alternative perspectives -- they learn -- on very liberal college campuses,...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 11, 20243 min read
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Bobo: Don't talk about Harvard's faults, no, no, no
A Harvard dean wants to punish professors who criticize Harvard.

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 17, 20241 min read
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Teacher fired for misgendering gets $360K
School district pays $360K to Christian teacher fired for refusing to follow transgender policy on pronouns, restrooms.

Joanne Jacobs
May 17, 20241 min read
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Include Jews -- or dismantle DEI?
The proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act is "profoundly misguided,"argue Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. The bill would allow...

Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20241 min read
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Don't trust the speech police
Jews must defend free speech, including hate speech against Jews, argues an editorial in Tablet, a Jewish publication. Jews "have an...

Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20242 min read
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New university creates space for debate, but it's not 'safe'
The new University of Austin -- the first class of 100 undergrads starts in fall -- wants to be a "pluralistic community" for discussion,...

Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20242 min read
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Nude doors at Barnard
Barnard College's new policy banning posters, decorations, dry-erase boards -- anything -- on dormitory doors teaches a bad lesson,...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 3, 20242 min read
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Jewish students feel unwelcome, unsafe on campus
Jewish students at Berkeley had to be evacuated from a building to escape 200 demonstrators who'd shattered glass doors and broken into...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 3, 20243 min read
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Prof suspended for 'anti-trans' chocolates will be back in class
A California history professor will return to teaching, nine months after he was suspended for bringing "transphobic" chocolates to a...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 4, 20241 min read
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DEI backlash
In the name of DEI -- diversity, equity and inclusion -- many colleges and universities "have violated their constitutional commitments...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 15, 20242 min read
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The Great Renaming: Adios to DEI, hello to 'Belonging' bureaucrats
Is DEI dead -- or just disrupted? Texas' state colleges and universities were forced to close diversity, equity and inclusion offices...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 5, 20242 min read
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Shut up, they explained
Cancel culture -- "campaigns to get people fired, disinvited, deplatformed, or otherwise punished" for dissenting from orthodox views --...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 29, 20232 min read
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