October 08, 2018
In Defense of Viewpoint Diversity
I’ve got a new article up at Inside Higher Ed arguing that greater viewpoint diversity in academia would be good for both research and teaching. Here’s an excerpt: Viewpoint homogeneity…
Author: Christopher Freiman
September 18, 2018
The Complicated Case of Political Dissent and Higher Education
I wrote a short letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education in response to Jason Stanley’s “Fascism and the University” that can be found here. An excerpt: The case for…
September 17, 2018
Unicorn Socialism
In his recent defense of socialism, Corey Robin writes: The socialist argument against capitalism isn’t that it makes us poor. It’s that it makes us unfree. When my well-being depends…
August 15, 2018
Academic Freedom is a Bipartisan Value
In an interview with Inside Higher Education, Jason Stanley makes a number of claims about academic freedom and support for free-market capitalism that are worth questioning. Stanley rightly calls out…
August 13, 2018
On “Real” Socialism
As children die of hunger in Venezuela, an old line is making a comeback: it’s not real socialism! One version of this reply alleges that socialism requires that workers directly…
August 08, 2018
Why Free Speech is Central to Universities’ Mission
I have a piece published at Heterodox Academy replying to Waldron’s recent article in the New York Review of Books. I argue that Waldron is wrong to “dismiss worries about…