The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (that’s FIRE of course) needs no introduction on this page. FIRE’s outstanding efforts on behalf of academic freedom and First Amendment rights on college campuses continue to inspire our admiration and gratitude, although it’s also an exceedingly sad commentary that such things would need defending as widely as they do. Anyway, FIRE will be adding a new dimension to its activities on September 14 in
March 24, 2025
Are American colleges and universities finally getting their comeuppance?...
March 31, 2025
Columbia's descent into chaos is by its own hand. Actions to right the university must be swift and tough....
January 27, 2025
New FOIA documents grant a window into how the University of Colorado-Boulder, in the name of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, discriminates on the basis of protected class and upholds a co......
May 15, 2015
A look at the double standard that has arisen regarding racism, illustrated recently by the reaction to a black professor's biased comments on Twitter....
April 15, 2025
The academic bureaucracies and professoriate are so deeply committed to their radical program of replacing American society with their own vision of a new order that we have no real choice b......
October 12, 2010
What does it mean to be Latino? Are only Latin American people Latino, or does the term apply to anyone whose language derived from Latin?...
