UNC Tries to Create a “Free-Speech Culture”
Jed Atkins, head of the Chapel Hill campus’s new School of Civic Life and Leadership, wants to teach students to be tolerant, in an old-school way.
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Guest Column
The Snowflake Factory
Jim Bacon: If this emerging paradigm is correct, UVA and other higher-ed institutions are taking a generation of students coddled by parents and K-12 schools to begin with and making things worse.
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Furman Needs to Walk Its Talk on Free Speech
Furman alumnus Evan Myers writes a guest commentary in The Post and Currier, highlighting the need for alumni to hold their administration accountable for protecting and promoting free speech on campus. What can we glean for UVA?
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A Playpen for Social-Justice Activists
What does UVA’s Equity Center do? Bacon’s Rebellion founder and TJC contributing editor James Bacon offers his thoughts.
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TJC Mention: Welcome to the Silencing of Dissenters
Americans need to begin to consider whether reorganization and reform of established academic institutions, including one founded by Thomas Jefferson, may be necessary.
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Why are You So Mad?
University presidents must reclaim their roles as impartial administrators rather than advocates of progressive causes, ensuring that institutions of higher learning return to their core teaching and research missions. Guest contributor Alan C. Stam offers his thoughts.
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Faculty Senate Votes for Review of Encampment Shutdown
The University of Virginia Faculty Senate voted to call for an “independent and external” review of the use of police force to shut down the pro-Palestinian “liberation zone.” TJC contributing editor Jim Bacon offers his thoughts.
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The Revolution Consumes Its Own
Like the Bolsheviks of yore, UVA militants have turned upon Ryan and Baucom with a vengeance. TJC contributing editor Jim Bacon weighs in.
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UVA Soft on Nazis but Brutal to Students?
The 2017 Unite the Right tragedy forced the University to think through issues it had not confronted in its recent history. The reforms created processes and protocols that were applied in 2024, TJC contributing editor Jim Back writes.
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Critics Don’t Buy Ryan’s Tent-Takedown Rationale
From professors to Lawn residents, members of the University of Virginia community continue to criticize senior UVA leadership for shutting down the UVA Encampment for Gaza “liberated zone.”
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