Ask yourself: would it be better to have a society where people argued against me, or would I prefer a society where the authorities were entitled to decide what I should and should not say?
As many campus media struggle to maintain a steady revenue, Index hears from two US university papers about their work and how they finance themselves independently
A Yale student group’s choice to host writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali was met with widespread protest. This is not the only recent example of a free expression dispute at a US campus. Dave Coscia writes
With just a few weeks to go before Egyptian universities open their gates to students for the start of the new academic year, the Egyptian authorities are feeling jittery — and rightly so. Shahira Amin reports
Hollins University currently forbids students from making any legal or biological step toward becoming male. Now it’s reconsidering its approach. Cathryn Asip reports
The message and tone of the “trigger warning” suggests a sad lack of faith in the power of art, and, by extension, humanity. We’re capable of better, writes Padraig Reidy
There is a strong attitude across university campuses that censorship is a good tool for the benefit of a multicultural and inclusive society, that respects the values of all its members, freeing them from being exposed to anything they may find “harmful”, Christopher Beckett writes
Activist academics played a pivotal role in the country’s 2011 uprising, but today the corrosion of academic freedom of expression continues, writes Heather McRobie
A lack of visibility of female academics at the University of Bristol – especially in the more scientific faculties – is in stark contrast to the number of undergraduates in the same subjects, Margot Tudor writes
A recent study of Vladimir Putin’s gangster tendencies has been suppressed: not by the Kremlin, but by a UK academic publisher living in fear of England’s libel laws, writes Padraig Reidy
Degree leader Matt Grimes asks why censorship issues have arisen at UK universities — the very places that should be open to competing ideas and consistency.
Penguin India has agreed to withdraw Wendy Doniger’s award-winning book The Hindus: An Alternative History, and to destroy remaining copies within six months, writes Salil Tripathi
Free speech on campus is a key Index on Censorship project to defend and expand freedom of speech at colleges and universities around the world
