"Campus Misinformation" Is a Year Old

Reminders: Book Details and Additional Resources

My book on popular debates and manufactured outrage about free speech on college campuses was published by just about a year ago. Campus Misinformation: The Real Threat to Free Speech in American Higher (Oxford University Press) shows how the so-called free speech crisis on US college campuses has been manufactured through misinformation, distortion, and political ideology.

Thank you to my current subscribers for supporting this Substack, which is an extension of that book—an effort to counter misinformation about higher education with constructive information and deliberation about colleges and universities. I believe that such campus information is valuable even to people who do not belong to university systems. As I explain in my book, political interference with universities and public hostility toward higher education are prime indicators of rising pro-authoritarian sentiment or threats to democratic civil liberties in general.

Events since the publication of Campus Misinformation—such as widespread state censorship of teaching materials; the continued vilification of university students, faculty, and administrators in many media outlets; and a national political party that imitates autocratic tactics against universities in Russia and Eastern Europe as a tool of culture-war politics in the U.S. —have reinfored my view that we now face a long-term, internationally coordinated movement against academic freedom and equal opportunity education.

As a reminder, I’ve also created a website for Campus Misinformation here, which contains updated links to podcasts and articles in case they're useful resources for anyone.

Thanks again for reading and/or subscribing! I hope to continue connecting and collaborating with others. A threat to academic freedom anywhere is a threat to it everywhere. In solidarity . . .