The Chronicle of Higher Education

Returning Fire

Last December saw another predictable report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a self-described watchdog group, highlighting how higher education is supposedly under siege from a politically correct plague of so-called hate-speech codes. In that report, FIRE declared that as many as 96 percent of top-ranked colleges "prohibit speech that, outside the...

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