Dorian Abbot, a University of Chicago scientist who has objected to aspects of affirmative action, was recently disinvitedВ from delivering a prominent public lecture on planetary climate at MIT. On our quads, faculty are being treated like thought criminals. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reports at least 491 disinvitationВ campaigns since 2000. Nearly 70% of students favor reporting professors if the professor says something students find offensive, according to a Challey Institute for Global Innovation survey. In Heterodox AcademyвЂ™s 2020 Campus Expression Survey, 62% of sampled college students agreed that the climate on their campus prevented students from saying things they believe. The picture among undergraduates is even bleaker. Four out of fiveВ American PhD students are willing to discriminate against right-leaning scholars, according to a report by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology. Over a thirdВ of conservative academics and PhD students say they had been threatened with disciplinary action for their views.

Nearly a quarterВ of American academics in the social sciences or humanities endorse ousting a colleague for having a wrong opinion about hot-button issues such as immigration or gender differences. The numbers tell the story as well as any anecdote youвЂ™ve read in the headlines or heard within your own circles.

From Pano Kanelos, its president:Д«ut in these top schools, and in so many others, can we actually claim that the pursuit of truth-once the central purpose of a university-remains the highest virtue? Do we honestly believe that the crucial means to that end-freedom of inquiry and civil discourse-prevail when illiberalism has become a pervasive feature of campus life? What terrific news! I knew this was coming, and today itвЂ™s official: the University of Austin is here.

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