Moss Pushes False Narrative… Yet Again
May 9, 2019
As a future attorney and accidental free-speech advocate, I have been particularly concerned by Professor Kevin Moss’s recent false attacks on political science professors in the fallout from the Legutko lecture cancellation.
Alumni Stand Behind Jeff Byers
By DAVID S. SHUMAN, MACIEJ CEGLOWSKI, BONNIE LEE, ADELINE VOUTCHKOVA-KOSTAL, and JAKUB KOSTAL
May 9, 2019
As alumni of the Middlebury Chemistry Department and former students of Professor Byers, we are truly disheartened by the recent events that transpired as a result of an insensitive Chemistry exam question.
Letter to the Editor: What are the Liberal Arts?
May 2, 2019
From a distance of years and hundreds of miles, it appears Middlebury is unmoored and has lost its distinct sense of self as a place apart.
Dear College: Reject This Tale of Two World Views
April 25, 2019
National politicians and news media have painted Middlebury as being at the center of an irreconcilable conflict of values.
President Patton, Right the Ship. Please.
By GRIFFIN HALL
April 25, 2019
Seniors at Middlebury will remember President Laurie Patton’s inaugural campaign to promote “rhetorical resilience.”
A Failure of Leadership
By JOEY LYONS
April 25, 2019
Two years after the Charles Murray incident, Middlebury finds itself again ridiculed in the national press.
In Defense of Jeff Byers
April 18, 2019
A month ago, I took a chemistry test that asked me to calculate the lethal dose of hydrogen cyanide.
College Gets Grant to Fund Discourse Post-Murray
September 27, 2018
With a grant of $800,000, the college hopes to facilitate several workshops over the next three years to tackle navigating controversial ideas.
Panel Reopens Murray Debate With Legal Perspective
January 17, 2018
The college and PEN America presented a panel on Thursday, Jan. 11 on free speech and inclusion, entitled “Whose Freedom, Whose Speech? The Future of Community and Free Speech at Middlebury.” This panel was designed to continue the ongoing conversations at the college about the relationship between free ...
Why Ethiopia Needs Free Speech
By ISAAC BYRNE
January 17, 2018
I am aware of what most people imagine when they think of Ethiopia. Probably a scene of starving children, clinging to goats on the side of dirt tracks. While reasonably widespread, this image is not altogether accurate. Over the last few years, parts of Ethiopia have been transformed by an economic m...
The Law Should Not Restrict Speech
January 17, 2018
Our society is confronting a difficult moment in which the values of liberty that we have always defended conflict with the values of inclusivity, equality and mutual respect. The best example of this conflict is the debate surrounding freedom of speech: should we allow speech in society that directl...
Patton to Attend Free Speech Conference
By ETHAN BRADY
October 11, 2017
President Laurie L. Patton will travel to the University of Chicago this weekend to be a panelist at a “free expression” conference, forgoing the annual president’s address that traditionally occurs on Fall Family Weekend. Susan Baldridge, the college provost, will address families on Saturday m...
