Commentary While in high school, I dreamed of attending a university where my right to say what I believe would remain sacred. I therefore enrolled at the University of Chicago because of its advertised commitment to unfettered academic inquiry. Upon attending, however, I quickly realized that the famed values upon which the school had been…

Commentary University of Lethbridge president Michael J. Mahon’s recent cancellation of a talk by Frances Widdowson marks yet another failure of Canadian universities to maintain open academic environments where candid speech and robust discourse are encouraged. Dr. Widdowson is a noted scholar of aboriginal issues whose views diverge from the mainstream narrative concerning Canada’s treatment…

Commentary Our cultural intelligentsia has commanded that in the name of social justice, certain beliefs about the world are infallible, never to be questioned. Such beliefs stand to our cultural moment as the ex cathedra pronouncements of a Medieval Pope: One questions such decrees only on penalty of excommunication. Like Alice falling down the rabbit…