Free speech is in trouble: Higher education needs higher standards

This year, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) celebrates its 25th anniversary. I have been with FIRE for 23 of those years, and while we have since expanded our mission beyond defending free speech in higher education, it is still central to what we do. The state of free speech and academic freedom was worse than I expected when I started back in 2001. And yet it has gotten worse to a degree that would have been unimaginable over the last 10 years — particularly in the last five.  

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