It is your right to be angry. It is your right to take a stand, and it is your right to protest. It is your right to assemble outside a building and scream at its occupants. It is your right to pitch tents,...
Vanderbilt University was ranked 58th out of the 159 colleges evaluated in the 2021 College Free Speech Rankings, released on September 21. The rankings were conducted by College Pulse, RealClear Education,...
With the pandemic-driven transition to online classes at Vanderbilt for the Fall 2020 semester, students have had to adapt the ways in which they communicate with one another. Class group chats and online...
Every major social development in our country’s brief history has come about through the freedom to discuss ideas without impunity. In antebellum America, the abolitionist movement found strength in...
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It’s no secret on college campuses that interest in the humanities has noticeably...
The controversial Carol Swain, a Vanderbilt Professor, is once again in the news after almost 1,500 students (and counting) signed a petition to have her fired. (The demand was recently downgraded to...
This interview with Vanderbilt Professor Carol Swain appears in VPR's Spring 2015 issue. The interview is prefaced by a brief introduction written by the interviewer Darby Hobbs, a member of VPR's...
