by Ashley Smith | Oct 31, 2025 | academic freedom, Charlie Kirk, far right, First Amendment, free speech, Higher Education, Interview, McCarthyism, Texas, Trump Administration, Turning Point USA
Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration has intensified the bipartisan New McCarthyism, compelling willing government, corporate, and institutional bosses to censure, suspend, and fire workers for exercising their First Amendment rights across the country. In one of the worst instances, Texas State University fired tenured professor Tom Alter in September for the “crime” of…
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by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg | Oct 21, 2025 | academic freedom, antifa, Charlie Kirk, Mark Bray, News, Rutgers University, Turning Point USA, watchlists
On Friday, October 17, the Rutgers University Senate overwhelmingly approved a resolution in support of academic freedom, spurred by the recent attacks on History Professor Mark Bray. The University Senate is made up of more than 200 members, representing faculty, students, staff, administrators, and alumni. Bray, the author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, says he began to receive…
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