{"id":1920485,"date":"2023-04-27T20:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T00:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-100-harvard-professors-take-a-stand-for-free-speech-at-the-elite-school\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T20:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T00:28:54","slug":"nearly-100-harvard-professors-take-a-stand-for-free-speech-at-the-elite-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-100-harvard-professors-take-a-stand-for-free-speech-at-the-elite-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 Harvard Professors Take A Stand For Free Speech At The Elite School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnearly-100-harvard-professors-take-a-stand-for-free-speech-at-the-elite-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Harvard Professors Launch Council of Academic Freedom to Promote Free Speech<\/h2>\n<p>Dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard University<\/a> professors have come together to support freedom of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/free-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expression<\/a> at the prestigious institution. As dissenting views become increasingly ostracized in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academia<\/a>, more than 90 professors launched the Council of Academic Freedom at Harvard earlier this month. Their aim is to \u201cpromote free inquiry, intellectual diversity, and civil discourse on campus,\u201d according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.harvard.edu\/cafh\/2023\/04\/20\/press-release-a-voice-for-academic-freedom-at-harvard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>A Diverse Group of Professors<\/h3>\n<p>The professors who launched the Council of Academic Freedom come from all sorts of academic disciplines, and include self-described civil libertarian law professor Alan Dershowitz and conservative-leaning government professor Harvey Mansfield. Former Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who led the Treasury Department under the Clinton administration, and economic policy professor Jason Furman, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under the Obama administration, are also part of the initiative. Members of the Council of Academic Freedom can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.harvard.edu\/cafh\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Free Speech Matters<\/h3>\n<p>Steven Pinker, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-article-3-month-olds-have-implicit-bias-train-those-toddlers-about-social-justice\/\" title=\"WaPo Article: 3-Month-Olds Have Implicit Bias; Train Those Toddlers About \u2018Social Justice\u2019\">psychology professor<\/a> and co-president of the Council of Academic Freedom, wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/04\/12\/opinion\/harvard-council-academic-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opinion piece<\/a> in The Boston Globe with psychobiology professor Bertha Madras contending that \u201crepression of academic freedom is systemic and must be actively resisted.\u201d They argue that free expression is essential for a truth-seeking institution like Harvard, as it allows for the exchange of ideas and the process of conjecture and refutation. Without free speech, progress and learning become impossible.<\/p>\n<h3>Threats to Free Speech<\/h3>\n<p>Free expression at American universities has been threatened in recent years as faculties become increasingly Left-of-center. Conservatives report pressure to self-censor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-speaker-loses-venue-at-sfsu-days-after-swim-champ-riley-gaines-attacked-on-campus\/\" title=\"Conservative Speaker Loses Venue At SFSU Days After Swim Champ Riley Gaines Attacked On Campus\">experience overt instances<\/a> of discrimination. Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan was verbally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-law-sides-with-howling-mob-of-spoiled-brats-in-shameful-treatment-of-federal-judge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accosted<\/a> by protesters and a diversity administrator at Stanford University as he attempted to deliver a speech to law students, while a collegiate swim champion was more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/swim-champ-riley-gaines-attacked-by-radical-trans-mob-forced-to-barricade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assaulted<\/a> by student activists at San Francisco State University after she delivered a speech about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-are-not-women\/\" title=\"Men Are Not Women\">radical gender theory<\/a> and women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has not been immune to the censorship of voices that threaten orthodoxy at the institution. Administrators removed Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) two years ago from her role on the senior advisory board of the Harvard Institute of Politics for making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-rep-elise-stefanik-responds-after-harvard-cuts-her-from-politics-advisory-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> about voter fraud deemed to be incorrect. Students likewise circulated a petition that sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-students-petition-for-trump-allied-graduates-to-lose-degrees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revoke<\/a> the Harvard degrees earned by lawmakers such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol Building, asserting that the officials had \u201cworked hard to spread the disinformation and mistrust\u201d which led to the incident.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-7896\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of Harvard University professors launched an effort to support freedom of expression at the elite school as dissenting views become increasingly ostracized in academia. More than 90 professors launched the Council of Academic Freedom at Harvard earlier this month to \u201cpromote free inquiry, intellectual diversity, and civil discourse on campus,\u201d according to a recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1920486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5696,4069,6240,8169,3924,4554,8176],"class_list":["post-1920485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-5696","tag-elite","tag-harvard","tag-professors","tag-school","tag-speech","tag-stand"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}