August 28, 2018
Article: Defining the Fine Arts
Michelle Marder Kamhi
NAS member Michelle Marder Kamhi responds to the Fine Arts: Brief.
July 19, 2016
MTC: Progressive Policing of Speech Moves Off Campus
Wendy Kaminer
“Hate speech is excluded from protection,” CNN anchor Chris Cuomo tweeted last year, echoing a dangerously common misconception. “Hate speech isn’t free speech,” people say, assuming they have a right......
March 29, 2016
MTC: Why “To Kill a Mockingbird” Could Never Be Read Aloud*
Wendy Kaminer
At first glance, this looks like a victory for free speech: University of Kansas assistant professor, Andrea Quenette, was allowed to keep her job after quoting the word “nigger” instead of referencin......
September 15, 2014
MTC: California's Terrible New 'Affirmative Consent' Law
Wendy Kaminer
Cross-posted from Cognoscenti I’m a feminist, or so I have always thought, given my decades of advocacy for unqualified sexual equality and reproductive choice. But according to Gloria Steinem and......
November 22, 2013
Article: DOE's Sexual Harassment Guidelines Not a "Blueprint" for All Colleges
Ashley Thorne
A letter from the new head of the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights indicates that the Office may be moving away from its earlier unconstitutional policies on university disciplin......
June 5, 2013
Article: Sexual Harassment--The Feds Go Way Too Far
Peter Wood
Peter Wood evaluates the implications of the federal government's "breathtakingly broad definition" of campus sexual harassment.
November 7, 2011
Article: Anti-Bullying Regulations in DC Promise Ubiquitous Micromanagement
Glenn Ricketts
There may well be a threshold at which verbal abuse constitutes legitimately punishable harassment, but the bill currently under consideration by the DC Council goes way, WAY, beyond those limits: "......
November 9, 2010
MTC: Social Justice Art and Liberal Democracy
Donald A. Downs
Michelle Kamhi is the co-editor of the online arts review Aristos, and a mild-mannered, well-spoken New Yorker with a love of art and intellectual integrity. She is also the cause of a heated controve......
July 16, 2010
Article: 'Socially Judicious' Art Ed?
Candace de Russy
Watch out for it -- already a fixture in leading schools of art education --before it becomes the norm in K-12 classes throughout the land, thus vastly politicizing the arts by making......