Newsletter 2020s

February 2024 Newsletter - Issue #97

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November 2023 Newsletter - Issue #96

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April 2023 Newsletter - Issue #95

Thou Shalt Be Exactly the Same as Me - Joseph Khoury

Status of Fired Faculty Members Pending Arbitration - Peter Bowal

The Corruption of Higher Education - Sinclair A. MacRae

Questions or Conformity? Reading Rights for the Right to Learn - Amy Girard

Should Universities "Foster Respect" for Indigenous "Ways of Knowing"? - Frances Widdowson

What is Anti-Racist Mathematics? - Philip A. Sullivan

Locke, Newman, Free Speech and Academic Freedom - J.R. Werbics

Indigenizing Science - Mark Mercer

Wonder, Courage and Toughness of Mind: A Review of John Agresto, The Death of Learning - Lorrie Clark

The Wages of Critical Race Theory: A Review of Jonathan Butcher's Splintered - Kris Larsen

Harming while Seeking to Prevent Harm: A Notice of From Oversight to Overkill - John Mueller

To Make Academic Freedom Popular Once Again: A Review of Olivier Beaud, « Le Savoir en Danger» - Jean-Jacques Defert

A Professor Emeritus Visiting the University College at Western University - Heinz-Joachim Klatt

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January 2023 Newsletter - Issue #94

Naming the Title of White Niggers of America: I Will Die on This Hill - Frances Widdowson

Reinstatement of Wrongfully Dismissed Faculty Members - Peter Bowal

Institutional Neutrality: Do not block the way of inquiry! - William McNally

Mark Mercer at X - Louis Groarke

On the Responsibilities of Academic Freedom - Sinclair A. MacRae

Cancellation of a High-School Teacher - Jim McMurtry

The Importance of Acceptable Questions and Preapproved Answers for Today's Successful University Researcher - Stephen B. Perrott

On Trusting the Censorious Authoritarians in Health - Grant A. Brown

From Cabbages to Kings: The Narrowing of the Overton Window - Leslie Marsh

Checking the Blind Spots: A Review of Identity, "Race", and Freedom of Expression - Sophie Beaulé

Case Studies in Censorship and Cancellation: A Review of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom - Geoff Horsman

Education in an Age of Victimhood: A Review of Carl Trueman's Strange New World - Patrick Keeney

Swear Allegiance to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion or Don't Get Hired - Mark Mercer

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September 2022 Newsletter - Issue #93

All Eyes on the Arbitration of the #FrancesWiddowsonCase - Frances Widdowson

Saving Free Speech from Academic-Freedom Committees - Sinclair A. MacRae

Medicine Is Getting Woke - Everett Maller, M.D.

The Folly of Woke Diversity - Kris Larsen

To a Friend on the Importance of the Individual - Barbara D. Miller

What Is a Teacher to Do? Lessons on the Kamloops Indian Residential School - Jim McMurtry

Universities Must Address the Creep of Ideology - Stuart Chambers

Covid Mandates, Campus Culture, Our Society - Peter Zizler

A Walk on the Wild Side of Facebook U: A Response to Bryant and Larsen's Review of My Choice - Robin Collins

Kingdom Building and the Rise of HR Enforcers - Peter Bowal

In Love with the University Spirit: A Review of A. Troglodyte's Some Quaint, Old-Fashioned Advice - Regan Ross

How Academics Can Prevent Summer Snowstorms: A Review of James Stacey Taylor's Markets with Limits - Patrick Keeney

Minimize and Trivialize: A Review of Emmett Macfarlane, ed., Dilemmas of Free Expression - Christina Behme

Civility as a Refuge for Academic Philistinism - Mark Mercer

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April 2022 Newsletter - Issue #92

The Cure for Everything - Robert Grant Price

Shaking One's Fist at Clouds - Mark Mercer

Protecting Disputation: What Is to Be Done? - Frances Widdowson

DIE and Respect are Bad for Academic Culture - William McNally

The Freedom to Disparage Public Universities - Peter Bowal

The Nefarious Role of a Psychiatrist in the 2008 Mobbing of Denis Rancourt, Exposed at Last in 2022 - Kenneth Westhues

Through the Prism of Rationalization, Expediency, and Financial Benefit: A Review of Harvey Weingarten's Nothing Less Than Great - Gabor Csepregi

A Lone Pine of a Woman: A Review of Julie Ponesse's My Choice - Lynne Bryant, Kris Larsen

An Attack on the Censors' Arguments Both Satisfying and Cathartic: A Review of Andrew Doyle, Free Speech and Why it Matters - Stephen B. Perrott

An Indispensable Resource: A Review of Charles Pincourt's Counter Wokecraft - Barbara D. Miller

Doreen Kimura - Clive Seligman

John J. Furedy - Peter Suedfeld

Clive Seligman - Steve Lupker

Mark Mercer - Andrew David Irvine

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January 2022 Newsletter - Issue #91

When Wokeism and the Corporate University Intersect - Frances Widdowson

University of Regina CS Lecturer Received "Letter of Expectation" (and More) for Criticizing School's DIE Policies - Daniel R. Page

Fatal Abstraction: When Dialogue Turns to Dogma - Patrick Keeney

If Not Now, When? - Pamela Lindsay

Pitfalls of the Scholar Turned Activist - Stuart Chambers

School Teachers are Finding Literature Too Hot to Handle - Jim McMurtry

Tighten Law to Force Employers to Return Personal Property to Terminated Employees - Peter Bowal

What Can be Done to Protect and Promote Academic Freedom and the Merit Principle in the Coming Years? - Charles Pincourt

Discrimination on the Basis of Identity - Philip Backman

The War against Academic Freedom - Philip Carl Salzman

Well of Course Academic Freedom is Political - Paul Viminitz

Resisting Epistemic Tribalism and Cancel Culture in the Classroom - Sinclair A. MacRae

Knowledge in an Age of Cancellers, Trolls and Disinformation: A Review of The Constitution of Knowledge - Kate Talmage

Courageous Enough to Walk on Campus Tripwires: A Review of Beyond Woke - Lynne Bryant, Kris Larsen

Facts and the Plight of Indigenous Canadians: A Review of From Truth Comes Reconciliation - Philip A. Sullivan

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2021

october

Number 90

October 2021 Newsletter - Issue #90

Special Issue on COVID Policies and Universities---Editor's Note - Janice Fiamengo

Customs Officer - Robert Grant Price

Four Legal Questions About Ontario University Vaccination Policies - Bruce Pardy

Open Letter to U of Waterloo Officials: Repeal the Covid Vaccination and Testing Mandates - Michael Palmer, Edward R. Vrscay, Richard Mann

The Discordance of Mandates - Travis D. Smith

God and Man at UAl(berta) - Kathleen Lowrey

Enrolled in the Religion of Fear - Douglas Farrow

Another Stab at the Jabs: COVID and the Perception of Risk - Grant A. Brown

Vaccine Mandates Offer Powerful Lesson in Rights - Peter Bowal

Reality Check: No, Canadian Colleges and Universities Cannot Mandate COVID-19 Vaccination Without Violating Charter Rights - Claus Rinner

Turning Scientific Inquiry Into Quasi Religious Dogma Harms Everyone - Christina Behme

COVID-19 and the Attack on Students - Alisa Samuel

Why Can't Public Health Officials Follow the Science? - Philip Carl Salzman

On the Pursuit of Scientific Truth: David Cayley in Conversation - Laurent Leduc

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september

Number 89

September 2021 Newsletter - Issue #89

Brief to the Comité d'experts sur la reconnaissance de la liberté académique

Submission to the Committee of Experts on the Recognition of Academic Freedom - Douglas Farrow

Brief on Academic Freedom: Submitted to the Commission scientifique et technique indépendante sur la reconnaissance de la liberté académique dans le milieu universitaire, Organismes liés, Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, Gouvernement du Québec - Philip Carl Salzman

On Weaponizing Literature, Campus Cancel Culture, and Why I Wrote Nevergreen - Andrew Pessin

Academic Freedom, Cancel Culture, and the Ethical Failings of Higher Education Professionals - Sinclair A. MacRae

Compelled Expression on Canadian Campuses - Peter Bowal

Not Mount Allison's Finest Hour - Kris Larsen

The Residential Schools and Unmarked Graves: Why is Open Inquiry Perilous? - Frances Widdowson

Indigenous Knowledge and Science - Philip A. Sullivan

The Effects of Identity and Beliefs on Perceptions and Judgments - Dave Porter, Yabsira Ayele, Deshontanae Davis, Jenifer Fidela, Aaron Clark

Only in a Society of Litigious Mania: A review of James R. Flynn, A Book Too Risky to Publish: Free Speech and Universities - Peter Suedfeld

Ask Only Pre-Approved Questions: A review of Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor, Unassailable Ideas - Stephen B. Perrott

Warning All Grad Students: A review of Lindsay Shepherd, Diversity and Exclusion - Christina Behme

Showing No Embarrassment: A review of Ulrich Baer, What Snowflakes Get Right - Dale Beyerstein

Is Informality Simply Too Dangerous? - Mark Mercer

A Speakeasy in the Age of Prohibition - Pamela Lindsay

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April

Number 88

April 2021 Newsletter - Issue #88

When You Were Hired - Augie Westhaver

Academic Mobbing: State of the Field in 2021 - Kenneth Westhues

The Emptiness of Compelled Speech - Christina Behme

Existential Threat - Philip Backman

How "Inclusion" in Canadian Universities Becomes Exclusion - Philip Carl Salzman

How Reified Postmodernism is Killing the Mount Royal Faculty Association - Frances Widdowson

A Grad Student's Perspective - Pamela Lindsay

Training for Active Participation in the Public Realm: A Review of Free Speech and Liberal Education - Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Lessons from the Trenches: A Review of Free Speech and Liberal Education - Kris Larsen

A Primer for Bare Knuckles Debate: A Review of The Parasitic Mind - Dale Beyerstein

Critical Theory Extremism and the Perversion of Academic Freedom - Sinclair A. MacRae

Discipline and Punish - Mark Mercer

Systemic Racism? - Albert Howard

Understanding and Advancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: A Case for Statistical Thinking - Rachel Altman

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january

Number 87

January 2021 Newsletter - Issue #87

The George Jonas Freedom Award, 2020 - Peter Suedfeld

Constitutional Freedoms and the Universities - Mark Mercer

What They Do in the Shadows - Kathleen Lowrey

The New Anthropology - Philip Carl Salzman

The Residential Schools and Mount Royal University: Thou Shalt Not Challenge the Narrative of “Genocide” - Frances Widdowson

Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental: A Review of Campusland - Kris Larsen

Showing Civility where Others Lose their Minds: A Review of Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars - Grant A. Brown

Maoist Censorship and Cowardly Capitulation: The Bruce Gilley Affair, Part II - Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

University Recruitment Should Be Based on Merit - Rodney A. Clifton

Are Micro-Aggressions Really a Human Rights Violation? - Calum Anderson

The N-Word that Dare Not Speak Its Name - Stuart Chambers

Infecting Impressionable Minds: from Cholera Flags to Red Lines - Christina Behme

Applied Post-Modernism Ruins Everything: A Review of Cynical Theories - Patrick Keeney

A Cancel Culture Primer and Survival Guide - Barbara D. Miller

The Stupidity of Our Times - Sinclair A. MacRae

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2020

september

Number 86

September 2020 Newsletter - Issue #86

In Defense Of The Chicago Principles - Paul Viminitz

Now Is The Time To Resist - Donald A. Downs

A Letter From Inside A Perfect Storm - Barbara D. Miller

Demonizing Dissent - Sinclair A. MacRae

Higher Education, Conversation, And The Quiet Virtues - Patrick Keeney

Review Of Jim Prosser, Savage Messiah - Kris Larsen

Two Collections By Philip Carl Salzman Reviewed - Bill Smyth

Review Of John M. Ellis, the Breakdown Of Higher Education - Stephen B. Perrott

Young Men's Mental Health: Are Universities Part Of The Problem Or Part Of The Solution? - Rob Whitley

The Right To Offend: A Canadian Precedent From 1951 - Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Diversity In Everything Except Ideas - Andrew David Irvine

The New Residential School: Moral Purism And Oikophobia At Queen's Law - Calum Anderson

Lessons From The Wendy Mesley Case: Please Don't Feed The #racehustling Crocodiles! - Frances Widdowson

The Invention Of 'Systemic Racism' - Philip Carl Salzman

The Ghost In The Machine - Philip Backman

Race-Based Restrictions From An Academic Perspective - Mark Mercer

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april

Number 85

April 2020 Newsletter - Issue #85

A Brief Guide to Academic Freedom - Andrew David Irvine

Academic Freedom Entails Individual and Social Responsibility - Stuart Chambers

A Crack Opens for Free Speech on Campus - Grant A. Brown

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid - Susan Cassan

Have We Forgotten Martin Luther King's Lesson? - Rodney A. Clifton, Gerry Bowler

Review of Michael Rectenwald, Springtime for Snowflakes - Kris Larsen

Uncomfortable Questions: The Bruce Gilley Scandal - Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Respect and Academic Freedom - Sinclair A. MacRae

The Politicization of Faculty Associations: What Are the Implications for Open Inquiry? - Frances Widdowson

The Value of Study for Its Own Sake - Mark Mercer

Why Twitter is Bad for Our Cultural Health - David Solway

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity as Mantra and Oath - Stephen B. Perrott

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january

Number 84

January 2020 Newsletter - Issue #84

The Gender Identity Debate and Academic Freedom at Simon Fraser - Rachel Altman, Mark Collard

Is Free Speech Binary? - Christina Behme

The Mark Hecht Case: Was the Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) "Loyalty Oath" Violated? - Frances Widdowson

The Most Valuable Lessons from Rick Mehta's Recent Lecture Were Delivered by His Detractors - Matt Elliott

The Struggle for Free Speech on Canadian Campuses - Rodney A. Clifton

Finding a Point in Writing and Speaking - Robert Grant Price

Review of Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds - Stephen B. Perrott

Review of David Horowitz, The Left in the University - Kris Larsen

Review of Paul Gooch, Course Correction - Patrick Keeney

Review of Raewyn Connell, The Good University - Malcolm G. Bird

The Campus Tendency to Extremism - Philip Carl Salzman

Review of Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness, Cracks in the Ivory Tower - Darren Abramson

Review of Anthony Kronman, The Assault on American Excellence - John E. MacKinnon

Review of Henry Reichman, The Future of Academic Freedom - Joanne Boucher

Academic Philistinism - Mark Mercer

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