Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is the co-author (with Signe Wilkinson) of Free Speech, And Why You Should Give a Damn, which was published in April by City of Light Press.
Race, Free Speech, and the Purge of Campus Blasphemers
At a New York City college, a professor is dismissed shortly after using the N-word in an academic discussion of Mark Twain.
Our Divisions Are Worse Than You Think
And the news feed of alternative facts makes it impossible to move forward.
The New York Times and Modern Blasphemy
The Donald McNeil controversy has long roots. A historian of free speech explains.
Impeach Trump But Not for What He Said on January 6th
It’s chilling when my fellow liberals like Nancy Pelosi start talking about “incitement of insurrection,” a charge that’s been used against the Left and doesn’t apply here.
What Donald Trump Can Learn From Grover Cleveland
The only president to lose and then come back, the 24th president has lessons for the 45th.
