This is going to be such a cool launch — and now you can livestream it! The University of Chicago The Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression Hear from Paul Alivisatos Heterodox Academy PEN America ACLU Ben Wizner Jeffrey Flier Ayad Akhtar FIRE
(Me!) David Axelrod Heidi Heitkamp and more!

FIRE's Creative Team really knocked it out of the park with this powerful mini-doc. 👏👏👏

Our forthcoming book Canceling of the American Mind gives very concrete reasons for why the public is less trusting of institutions & the expert class: if even one person has their job threatened for having 'the wrong' conclusion on an important societal issue the public is not…

In today's university, is expressing a conservative opinion a criminal offense? Is discovering that a professor did so traumatic? The fanaticism & bathos of the modern university, revealed in the ordeal of my colleague Tyler VanderWeele. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A very informative discussion including and argument for non-partisan free speech.

by the brilliant American first-amendment lawyer
Greg Lukianoff

What a discussion! Highly recommended.

youtu.be/buarAx_u2qg

Are you a faculty member who wants to sign on to FIRE’s open letter to the American Anthropological Assoc & Canadian Anthropology Society?
open.substack.com/pub/greglukian…

The American Anthropological Association and CASCA panel on biological sex could have come and gone. Instead we're having a protracted series of conversations about the conversation that didn't happen and why.

Thrilled to co-author with Greg Lukianoff on his new Substack!
greglukianoff.substack.com/p/canceling-th…

I think this is one of the most fascinating studies in Nature Human Behavior in the past few years.

Danese & Widom found that only subjective (S) rather than objective childhood (O) maltreatment predicted subjects having different mental disorders.

'As for the complaints & claims of 'harm' that the mere discussion of certain topics will supposedly cause, what of the fact that now the conversation is being had by everyone except the anthropologists?' ⁦⁦⁦Greg Lukianoff ⁦Angel Eduardo⁩ open.substack.com/pub/greglukian…

My book with Rikki Schlott⁩ & with a great foreword by ⁦Jonathan Haidt⁩ comes out just TWO WEEKS from today!

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust & Threatens Us All a.co/d/e5xz63q

I love the idea that any talk that is cancelled for ideological reasons should immediately be done in a bigger venue. Great job Angel Eduardo and Greg Lukianoff !

My first post with the great ⁦Angel Eduardo⁩! HT to ⁦Carole Hooven⁩ for letting me know about this case & to ⁦Alice Dreger, Ph.D.⁩ for her great article about this. open.substack.com/pub/greglukian…

Worse, they get to see us struggling thru airports with our kids, which is literally the worst part of being a parent. I even sometimes stop couples to say “ Traveling with kids is the worst advertisement for having them, but it’s not representative. It’s SO worth it over all!”

This is... a wild stat.

37 percent of all US children are subjects of CPS reports (28% of white children and 53% of Black children experience CPS involvement before their 18th birthday).