There’s An Intensifying Kind of Threat to Academic Freedom – Watchful Students Serving as Informants
Austin Sarat | 14 January 2026 | The Conversation
Texas A&M University told philosophy professor Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not teach some of Greek philosopher Plato’s writings that touch on “race and gender ideology.”
The university’s local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, an organization of professors and academics in the U.S., quickly denounced this requirement…