Allen C. Guelzo

It’s time to starve colleges of students and money, conservative scholars argue

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“When enough parents and students decide that colleges are no longer worth it, campuses will start to fail.” So said John Ellis, chairman of the California Association of Scholars and distinguished professor emeritus of German literature at UC Santa Cruz. “The most useful thing that critics of higher education can do is to get the … Read more

Free Speech and Its Present Crisis

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Madison believed that the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment were the source “for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity, over error and oppression.” Even so, the new nation experienced backslides into censorship from the very beginning. The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed in 1798, and mobs gathered to … Read more