MIT Free Speech Alliance

MFSA is an independent organization advocating for free expression, viewpoint diversity, and academic freedom at MIT. On Substack at MIT Uncanceled.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Don't miss the latest on our Substack, from MFSA President Wayne Stargardt. Link in next post!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Today at 5 PM!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

This should be an interesting discussion of IRB reform, featuring @PsychRabble and our friend & MFSA member Evan Morris, among others.

🗓️: June 3
⏲️: 5-6:30 p.m. ET

In-person & Zoom options available. Link & additional info in next posts.

[Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) @MIT]

Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94 to the Class of 2026, “Run toward the hardest problems. Hard problems teach you what you're capable of.”

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

This afternoon at 3:00 ET!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Should be a good virtual event from our friends at @HAFFS_Harvard!

🗓️: May 28
⏲️: 3:00 PM

More info at https://t.co/GYN23JANeC.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

This should be an interesting discussion of IRB reform, featuring @PsychRabble and our friend & MFSA member Evan Morris, among others.

🗓️: June 3
⏲️: 5-6:30 p.m. ET

In-person & Zoom options available. Link & additional info in next posts.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

And if you really want to come prepared, you can read their reform proposal, published in the Journal of Controversial Ideas as part of its special issue on Censorship in the Sciences.
https://t.co/XzTsRmFzuJ

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

This should be an interesting discussion of IRB reform, featuring @PsychRabble and our friend & MFSA member Evan Morris, among others.

🗓️: June 3
⏲️: 5-6:30 p.m. ET

In-person & Zoom options available. Link & additional info in next posts.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

You can read the HxStem announcement here:
-https://t.co/Yjry3dSNkE

And register for the Zoom discussion here:
-https://t.co/BXvuW24cn6

[Peter Bonilla @pebonilla]

My latest for the @mitfreespeech Substack, revisiting last year's commencement controversy at MIT.
https://t.co/WP9t2Ha6Lp

[Jeffrey Flier @jflier]

I had a great discussion today with John Tomasi of @HdxAcademy on the value and purpose of university commencement addresses, and why their use to deliver politicized messages is not good. Many great audience questions. https://t.co/L4pIdwMjyB

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

c/o @glukianoff & @RIKKISCHLOTT's 'The Canceling of the American Mind,' a reminder of the social pressures at work in higher education--at MIT and elsewhere.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Should be a good virtual event from our friends at @HAFFS_Harvard!

🗓️: May 28
⏲️: 3:00 PM

More info at https://t.co/GYN23JANeC.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

There was a bit of a row over NYU selecting @JonHaidt for its keynote this year -- which makes @MIT president Sally Kornbluth look all the wiser for inviting him to deliver MIT's Compton Lecture this spring. It was a great discussion! Watch it here:
https://t.co/pDmTu2IYDw

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Meanwhile, you can read @JonHaidt speech to the NYU grads in @TheAtlantic:
https://t.co/iZkr73eNaa

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

There was a bit of a row over NYU selecting @JonHaidt for its keynote this year -- which makes @MIT president Sally Kornbluth look all the wiser for inviting him to deliver MIT's Compton Lecture this spring. It was a great discussion! Watch it here:
https://t.co/pDmTu2IYDw

[Nico Perrino @NicoPerrino]

Efforts to cancel commencement speakers for wrongthink are common. So common in fact that two decades ago @TheFIREorg took to calling commencement season "disinvation season."

Too often administrations capitulate to these demands by pivoting to speakers or ceremonies so bland that they become banal. And by rewarding the cancelers, they incentivize more cancelation demands.

Fortunately, @nyuniversity isn't backing down.

We've found that when universities state unequivocal commitments like this, the demands peter out.

It's when you equivocate, or try to please everyone, that cancelation voices grow louder.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Taken from Wayne's remarks, delivered to a meeting of the MIT Council on Academic Freedom, here:
https://t.co/47fzgaFOxe

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Don't miss the latest on our Substack, from MFSA President Wayne Stargardt. Link in next post!

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

📢!

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

I’m moderating a webinar on intellectual diversity in higher ed this Wednesday at 2pm ET.

Participants include John Tomasi (President, HxA), William Inboden (Provost, UT-Austin), and Ramsey White, (Trustee, UNC-Chapel Hill).

If interested, you can register at the link below.

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Don't miss our Substack latest, on the power of alumni (non) giving, from MFSA member & MIT alum Evan Morris:
https://t.co/mK4SxphQ02

[MIT Free Speech Alliance @mitfreespeech]

Don't miss our Substack latest, on the power of alumni (non) giving, from MFSA member & MIT alum Evan Morris:
https://t.co/mK4SxphQ02