![]() ![]() More than half of our students say they are uncomfortable expressing views on controversial issues in class.”Īs I write, the CAFH has 71 members, many significant presences in academia. ![]() Noting that Harvard ranks 170th of 203 in FIRE’s “2023 College Free Speech Rankings,” Pinker and Madras state with depressing force that “we know of cases of disinvitation, sanctioning, harassment, public shaming, and threats of firing and boycotts for the expression of disfavored opinions. Unfortunately, however, all is not well at America’s oldest university. On April 12, the psychologist Steven Pinker and the psychobiologist Bertha Madras announced in the Boston Globe the formation of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard (CAFH), a faculty-led organization devoted to the principles of free inquiry, intellectual diversity, and civil discourse. ![]()
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